A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discover the hel...
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discover the hellish truth of Hollywood.
In 1941, New York intellectual playwright Barton Fink comes to Hollywood to write a Wallace Beery wrestling picture. Staying in the eerie Hotel Earle, Barton develops severe writer's block. His neighbor, jovial inurance salesman Charlie Meadows, tries to help, but Barton continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him even further from his task.
