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The Coen Brothers’ follow-up to their Oscar-winning NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN is a quirky spy spoof that mixes the genre satire of FARGO with the dark whimsy of their films like O’ BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Secret CIA documents. Plastic surgery. Alcoholics. Adultery. Sexaholics. Are the elements of the plot random events or building to something bigger? What’s being constructed in the basement? Who is following me in that car? Did the Russians kill my friend? We watch to find out the answers and along the way laugh out loud.

Osborne Cox (John Malkovich, DANGEROUS LIASONS) is a mid-level CIA analyst who is demoted due to his drinking problem. Offended by the implication, he quits to write his tell-all memoir. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton, MICHAEL CLAYTON) doesn’t like this at all. She’s been finished with Osborne for quite some time, sleeping with Treasury employee Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney, OCEAN’S ELEVEN), who uses dating services to cheat on his wife. One day, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt, SEVEN), a clueless personal trainer, comes across a disk with CIA “stuff” on it. Discovering it was created by Osborne, he and his co-worker Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand, BLOOD SIMPLE) devise a hair-brained plan to blackmail the former agent. Linda wants to use the money on four cosmetic surgeries she believes she needs. Their manager Ted (Richard Jenkins, THE VISITOR) thinks its all a bad idea and believes Linda looks great just they way she is. As the plot boils, the various players will cross paths in various ways. Left to sort it all out is a CIA supervisor (J.K. Simmons, JUNO).

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