New York City playwright Barton Fink goes to Hollywood to earn big money and make a difference as a screenwriter, but things don’t quite go as expected in this dark comedy from the Coen brothers. Beset with writer’s block and mounting desperation, Fink’s problems multiply after a fateful night at his seedy hotel. Starring John Turturro as Fink, John Goodman as his insurance salesman neighbor, and Steve Buscemi as a creepy bellboy.

“Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through.” Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine

“A triumph for the offbeat, grimly funny brothers, it reveals in its mythic fashion the vagaries of the creative process that plague every artist.” Rita Kempley, Washington Post