After a phone call and unsuccessful meeting provoke Cox, Chad and Linda try to sell the disc to the Russian embassy, meeting with an official who is actually a spy for the CIA. The disc falls into the hands of personal trainer Chad Feldheimer and his coworker Linda Litzke, who mistakenly believe it to contain sensitive government information.Ĭhad devises a plan to return the disc to Osbourne Cox for a cash reward, with Linda eager to raise money for cosmetic surgery that she cannot afford. The lawyer's assistant copies the files onto a CD, which she accidentally leaves on the locker room floor of Hardbodies, a local gym. At the instruction of her lawyer, Katie copies and delivers her husband's digital financial records and other files, unknowingly including the draft of Ozzie's memoir. When his pediatrician wife Katie finds out, she sees it as an opportunity to file for divorce and to continue an affair with Harry Pfarrer, a married U.S. įaced with a demotion due to a drinking problem, Osbourne Cox angrily quits his job as a CIA analyst and decides to write a memoir. Critical response was mostly positive, with nominations at both the Golden Globes and BAFTA awards. It performed well at the box office, grossing over $163 million from its $37 million budget. It was released in the United States on September 12, 2008, and in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2008. The film premiered on August 27, 2008, at the Venice Film Festival. Marshal, Tilda Swinton as Katie Cox, the wife of Osbourne Cox, Richard Jenkins as the gym manager, and J.K. The film also stars George Clooney as a womanizing U.S. When they mistake the memoirs for classified government documents, they undergo a series of misadventures in an attempt to profit from their find. It follows a recently jobless CIA analyst, Osbourne Cox ( John Malkovich) whose misplaced memoirs are found by a pair of dimwitted gym employees ( Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt). Burn After Reading is a 2008 black comedy crime film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.
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