When Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton) decides to leave her CIA operative husband Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich), under instruction from her lawyer, she burns a CD of documentation, which she accidentally leaves at her local gym. As it turns out, Cox’s incomplete memoirs are on the disc, but to an outsider these could be, and are, mistaken for secret government information. After gym junkies Linda Litzke (Francis McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) come across the disc, they decide to blackmail Cox for the disc, which leads to hilarious and deadly results.

A quirky dark comedy with a great cast, especially John Malkovich whose sanity unravels throughout, Burn After Reading does have some flaws, but overall is a pretty enjoyable dark comedy with a fair share of genuine shocks.



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