Barton Fink

Barton Fink is a 1991 American black comedy thriller film written, produced, edited and directed by the Coen brothers. Set in 1941, it stars John Turturro as Barton Fink, a young New York City playwright hired to write scripts for a film studio in Hollywood, and John Goodman as Charlie Meadows, an insurance salesman who lives next door at the run-down Hotel Earle.