Rimouski - The Rimouski Cultural Circle presents a new release in partnership with Paraloeil, entitled Burn After Reading, Wednesday Dec 3rd, 7:30 p.m. For those who wish to stay, English discussion afterwards.

Burn after reading

This film is with well-known actors George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and directed by Joel and Ethan Cohen whose last film, No Country for Old Men, won an Academy Award.

Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) is a CIA analyst who quits his job at the agency after being demoted ostensibly because of his drinking problem. He then decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie Cox (Tilda Swinton), wants to divorce Osbourne and, at the counsel of her divorce lawyer, she copies many of his personal and financial files off his computer and onto an optical disc. Katie’s lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney). The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee of the gym, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt) obtains the disc from the gym’s custodian and ascertains that it contains classified government information. Along with his fellow employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand), he intends to use the disk to blackmail Osbourne - Linda needs the money to pay for cosmetic surgery. They call up Cox in the middle of the night, but he is not receptive. When blackmailing him fails, Linda decides to take the information to the Russian embassy. At the embassy, she hands the disk over to the Russians, promising that she will give more information afterwards. Because Linda and Chad don’t have any more information, they decide to break into Cox’s house.

(Source: IMDB - The Internet Movie Database)

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