#Burn after reading series#

Harry and Linda meet in a park, where Linda reveals the address where Chad had gone before disappearing. After they inform her the contents of the CD she has given them are worthless, she convinces the manager of Hardbodies, Ted (who has unrequited feelings for Linda), to help her by sneaking into the Cox household to gather more files. Linda returns to the embassy, believing that the Russians have abducted Chad, but they deny that they have him. A spy assigned to watch Cox's house tailed Harry and observed him dumping Chad's body into Chesapeake Bay unaware of Chad's identity, the director orders Chad's death to be covered up.ДЄfter finding the cars following him to be driven by a divorce lawyer hired by his wife, a depressed Harry meets with Linda, and after hearing her distress at her friend Chad going missing, Harry agrees to help find him, unaware that Chad is the man whom he had shot and killed. Harry searches the body for any clues to Chad's identity, but only finds an empty wallet and missing suit tags he surmises that Chad was a 'spook'.ДЄt CIA headquarters, Osbourne's former superior and a director learn that information from Osbourne has been given to the Russian embassy, and are perplexed because the information is of no importance and the perpetrators' motive is unknown. Having promised the Russians more files, Linda persuades Chad to sneak into the Cox house to steal files from Osbourne's computer, but this attempt ends in Chad's discovery by Harry, who shoots him in the head, killing him instantly. Harry is a womanizer and routinely dates and sleeps with women whom he has met online he coincidentally starts seeing Linda after meeting her on a dating site. Osbourne's erratic behavior prompts Katie to change the locks on their house and to invite Harry to move in. 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.Д¬had 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. ДЇaced 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, and the film received nominations at both the Golden Globes and British Academy Film 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.

#Burn after reading series#

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 spy film written, produced, edited and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.