Burn After Reading
Release Date: Sep 12, 2008 - Wide Release
Distributor: Focus Features (Universal)
Film Genre: Dark Comedy
Country: United States
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The Coen Bros. script is loosely based on the novel "Burn Before Reading: Presidents, CIA Directors, and Secret Intelligence," by Admiral Stansfield Turner, who served as director of the CIA from 1977 to 1981. The contemporary East Coast caper is about a CIA agent who is writing a book and he loses the disc. Clooney plays the killer.