Burn After Reading

Comedy, Crime

George Clooney	Harry Pfarrer
Frances McDormand	Linda Litzke
John Malkovich	Osbourne Cox
Tilda Swinton	Katie Cox
Brad Pitt	Chad Feldheimer
Richard Jenkins	Ted Treffon
Elizabeth Marvel	Sandy Pfarrer
David Rasche	CIA Officer
J.K. Simmons	CIA Superior
Olek Krupa	Krapotkin
Michael Countryman	Alan
Hamilton Clancy	Peck
Armand Schultz	Olson
Pun Bandhu	Doug Magruder
Jeffrey DeMunn	Cosmetic Surgeon
Richard Poe	Stretching Gym Patron
Carmen M. Herlihy	Prospective Gym Customer
Raul Aranas	Manolo
Judy Frank	Lawyer's Secretary
Matt Walton	Morning Show Host
Dermot Mulroney	Star of
Robert Prescott	Process Server
Richard Karn	Himself - Family Feud Host (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crystal Bock	PR Woman

Director	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Producer	Tim Bevan; Eric Fellner
Writer	Joel Coen; Ethan Coen
Cinematography	Emmanuel Lubezki
Musician	Carter Burwell

Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job and decides to write his memoir. His wife, Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton) is sleeping with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a US Marshall. Katie decides to divorce Osbourne and downloads all of his personal financial files onto a CD. The CD gets left at Hardbodies, a workout gym, where employees Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) mistake the CD as important top-secret files. To make some extra money, the two decide to blackmail Osbourne. This decision leads to a comical snowball of events.