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The Coen Brothers Collection - A Serious Man / Burn After Reading / The Big Lebowski / The Hudsucker Proxy / Barton Fink / Intolerable Cruelty (DVD)
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The Coen Brothers Collection - A Serious Man / Burn After Reading / The Big Lebowski / The Hudsucker Proxy / Barton Fink / Intolerable Cruelty (DVD)
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Loot Price R93
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A sextet of films from the Coen brothers. 'A Serious Man' (2009) is
set in 1967. Michael Stuhlbarg stars as Larry Gopnik, a Midwestern
physics professor whose settled and secure life begins to spiral
out of control after his wife Judith (Sari Lennick) reveals she is
leaving him for his arrogant associate Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed).
Larry struggles to cope with the failure of his marriage and the
unlikelihood of his unemployed brother, Arthur (Richard Kind),
getting a job and moving out of his house. At the same time, his
son, Danny (Aaron Wolff), is in trouble at school while his
daughter, Sarah (Jessica McManus), is stealing money from his
wallet. John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, George
Clooney and Brad Pitt star in the crime caper 'Burn After Reading'
(2008), which concerns the whereabouts of a sensitive disc
containing the incriminating memoirs of alcoholic CIA agent
Osbourne Cox (Malkovich). Cox's wife, Katie (Swinton), who is
having an affair with married federal marshall Harry Pfarrer
(Clooney), is making plans to leave her husband, and is advised by
her divorce lawyer to copy his personal files onto a disc. The disc
finds its way via a circuitous route to the Hardbodies fitness gym,
where two unscrupulous employees, Linda (McDormand) and Chad
(Pitt), decide to exploit their find for all they can get. The Coen
brothers' seventh film 'The Big Lebowski' (1997) is a typically
bizarre mix of mistaken identity, hippy philosophy and ten-pin
bowling. Jeff 'the Dude' Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is a bowling buff,
laid-back to the point of horizontal, who gets mixed up in a
blackmail plot involving a millionaire namesake. Roped into
delivering the ransom to secure the release of the millionaire's
kidnapped wife, the Dude's karmic balance is really put in a spin
when his gun-toting buddy, Walter (John Goodman,) decides to help
out. In 'Barton Fink' (1991) successful young playwright Barton
Fink (John Turturro) goes to Hollywood. He immediately obtains a
contract, only to develop writer's block when he discovers he is to
write a wrestling movie for a faded 1940s star. The Los Angeles
heat, his dingy hotel and a noisy neighbour (Goodman) combine to
increase the pressure on him, and Barton soon begins to lose his
grip on reality. 'The Hudsucker Proxy' (1994) follows the unlikely
adventures of Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), a college graduate who
secures a job in the post room at Hudsucker Industries just as its
chairman is jumping 50 floors to his death. The chairman's scheming
aide, Mussburger (Paul Newman), decides to hire Norville as
chairman, presuming he is a dunce whose new position will frighten
the stockholders into selling all their stock cheaply, thus
allowing him to consolidate his hold on the company. A cynical
journalist, Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), masquerades as
Norville's secretary in the hope of scooping a feature, but ends up
falling for Norville, who in the meantime invents the hula-hoop,
makes a fortune and revives the company's stock. Finally,
'Intolerable Cruelty' (2003) stars Clooney as Miles Massey, a
divorce lawyer who always wins his case until he comes head to head
with the scheming, money-grabbing, yet alluring, Mrs Marilyn
Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Miles and Marilyn each embark on
their own ruthless romantic missions to outdo one another and amass
great wealth.
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