2086 – Barton Fink (1991)

spacetime coordinates: 1941 Los Angeles (setting)

barton_fink poster

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)

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