2008 Back to School Movie Guide
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Burn After Reading
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand and Tilda Swinton
Release date: September 12
Why you should see it: Um, George Clooney, Brad Pitt … they're in it. Both of them. Oh, okay, if you need more reason that that, Joel and Ethan Coen, the Oscar-winning directors of No Country for Old Men and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, helm the crime comedy about a CIA agent who loses the computer disk that contains the manuscript for his top-secret memoirs. Who finds it? Two shady gym employees (one played by a very funny Pitt) who try to profit from their chance discovery.
Box office bottom line: Neither the Coens nor Clooney are exactly known as box office draws, but add in Pitt, a cheeky crime story and a supporting cast that includes two Oscar-winning actresses and Oscar nominee Malkovich, and Burn should put some butts in the seats.
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