First Showing has a few early stills from the Coen Brothers’ new spy-comedy, Burn After Reading. John Malkovich, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand star in the picture, with Malkovich as an ex-CIA guy whose plans to write an intelligence memoir are bungled by his wife (Swinton) in her pursuit of a divorce. The loss of her husband’s classified notes sets off what looks to be a comedy of errors in which Pitt, McDormand, and Clooney (as the CIA’s cleanup man) inject themselves.
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