Barton Fink
“There's only one thing stranger than what's going on inside his head... What's going on outside.”
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Studio
Working Title Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Barton Fink performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$6.2M
Gross Profit
−$2.8M
Return
0.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$886K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Barton Fink
John Turturro
Barton Fink
Charlie Meadows
John Goodman
Charlie Meadows
Audrey Taylor
Judy Davis
Audrey Taylor
Jack Lipnick
Michael Lerner
Jack Lipnick
W.P. Mayhew
John Mahoney
W.P. Mayhew
Ben Geisler
Tony Shalhoub
Ben Geisler
Lou Breeze
Jon Polito
Lou Breeze
Chet
Steve Buscemi
Chet
Garland Stanford
David Warrilow
Garland Stanford
Detective Mastrionotti
Richard Portnow
Detective Mastrionotti
Detective Deutsch
Christopher Murney
Detective Deutsch
Derek
I.M. Hobson
Derek
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