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Burn After Reading (2008)

Name: Burn After Reading
Director: Joel Coen
Genre: drama film, comedy film, comedy drama
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 7

Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy espionage film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osborne Cox, whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees. When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they embark on a series of misadventures in an attempt to profit from their find. The film also stars…

Directed by Joel Coen · Shot by Emmanuel Lubezki · Cut by Coen brothers · Music by Carter Burwell · 96 min

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