Burn After Reading

A very funny movie from the Coen brothers. Brad Pitt reveals a goofy side that we seldom get to see. George Clooney completes his "idiot trilogy" for the Coens, which started with O Brother Where Art Thou. Frances McDormant is again excellent and shows some of the same determination in her character as we saw in Fargo. She plays a gym instructor, looking for love on the internet and determined to raise the money to have some extensive plastic surgery done. The plot loops around itself and pops up in unsuspected places. The real joy is in the dialogue and the characters. There is one scene with Pitt and Clooney that only one character survives that is truly screamingly funny. Clooney is building something very interesting in his basement and John Malkovich is a nasty ex-CIA drunk who comes to a sticky end. Great fun.