Burn After Reading (2008) September 28, 2008

The Coen brothers present a supremely silly tale of infidelity and espionage. When CIA analyst Osbourn Cox (John Malkovich) gets fired, his wife, Katie (Tilda Swinton), who is having an affair with Treasury Agent Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), is inspired to divorce her newly unemployed husband. Her snooping accidentally leads to government secrets falling into the hands of two fitness instructors, depressed Linda (Frances McDormand) and air-headed Chad (Brad Pitt). Linda sees an opportunity to finance the plastic surgeries that she believes will change her life, while Chad thinks... well, not much. All of the characters are spying on one another, but all of this surveillance simply leads to confusion and disaster. The more they look, the less they understand, especially the supposedly omniscient CIA.