BARTON FINK

GENRE:  Mystery/ Drama/ Dark comedy
MADE:  1991
CAST:  John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis
DIRECTOR:  Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
WRITER:  Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

PLOT:  A dark comedy set in 1941 a playwright coming into popularity strikes a deal with Capital Pictures to write a B-movie wrestling film.  Staying in a grim looking hotel with a jovial neighbor the playwright is befallen with writer's block that continues as weird events begin to unfold in his life.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy

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THE BIG LEBOWSKI

GENRE:  Dark comedy
MADE:  1998
CAST:  Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi
DIRECTOR:  Joel & Ethan Coen
WRITER:  Joel & Ethan Coen

PLOT:  A story about mistaken identity between two Lebowskis leading into a story beginning with two bimbo henchmen urinated on a rug, spurring the story on to a deal made for the compensation of the rug, a deal that leads into more funny trouble with a group of nihilist and an eccentric artist.

PARALLEL UNIVERSE:  Barton Fink, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, American Psycho, O' Brother Where Art Thou?

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