spacetime coordinates: 1941 Los Angeles (setting)
Barton Fink is a 1991 American black comedy / film noir / horror / psychological thriller / buddy film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers. It stars John Turturro in the title role as a young New York City playwright who is hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, the insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle. (wiki)