BURN AFTER READING 2008

Starring; George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Brad Pitt


This movie brings an all star cast together. This tragic comedy involves middle age people - all undergoing some sort of crisis in their lives..
Plenty of spying, intrigue, sex and national security; a Born Identity kind of movie without the explosions.

When a disk filled with some of CIA’s most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees are intent on exploiting their find.
The story revolves around a bunch of shockingly dumb people in Washington; but it is not at all political. 

Brad plays a quirky workout instructor at Hardbodies. He rides his bike everywhere, wears spandex shorts and an I pod strapped to his arm. When pressured to wear a suit to appear more serious for the blackmail switch, he fails to lose the bike and I pod. He was hilarious in this movie. And really the reason I wanted to see this one when I saw the trailer for it a while back. 

George’s character has a lot of sex with various women, and a lot of running afterward. His wife is away on business for the whole movie.

Frances McDormand works at Hardbodies with Brad and soon sees the found disk laden with top secret information as a way of getting the money for a series of  cosmetic surgeries that she so desperately needs. 

I enjoyed it. If you haven’t watched it and get the chance to, I recommend it.