The Coen Brothers Collection Box Set DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Academy Award Winners Joel and Ethan Coen have been writing directing editing and producing some of the most original films to come out of Hollywood This box set contains six of their most unique and imaginative classics including their most recent hit A Serious Man Titles CompriseA Serious Man Larry Nidus is a good man He is a loving husband a committed father and a dedicated professor who always does the fair and just thing in the face of daily temptations But one day everything starts to go wrong His wife leaves him for reasons she can&t explain and her smug new lover manages to convince Larry that he should be the one to move out of the house and into a cheap motel - all
for the children&s benefit of course Burn After Reading An outrageous spy comedy about murder blackmail sex addiction and physical fitness!When a disc filled with some of the CIA&s most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined but dim-witted gym employees the duo are intent on exploiting their find But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts events soon spiral out of everyone&s and anyone&s control resulting in a non-stop series of hilarious encounters!The Big Lebowski It takes guys as simple as the Dude and Walter to make a story this complicated and they&d really rather be bowling &The Dude& Jeff Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is unemployed and laid-back That is until he becomes a victim of mistaken identity two thugs breaking into his apartment in the errant belief
that they are accosting Jeff Lebowski the Pasadena millionaire In hope of getting a replacement for his soiled carpet &the Dude& visits his wealthy namesake and with buddy ex 'Nam& vet Walter Sobchak he is swept into a labyrinthine comedythriller of extortion embezzlement sex dope German Nihilists White Russians mysterious cowboys Shomer Shabbos bowling and severThe Hudsucker Proxy Hudsucker Industries is flourishing Profits are stupendous and stock is at an all-time high So when their founder Waring Hudsucker leaps to his death from the 44th floor his board of directors is thrown into panic Hudsucker has not left a will and his majority shareholding in the company must therefore soon be offered for sale to the public But scheming Vice President Sidney J Mussburger has a plan He&ll install
a complete imbecile as Chairman and devalue the stock to a level where the rest of the board can acquire controlling interests for themselves Barton Fink Between Heaven and Hell There&s Always Hollywood!John Turturro shines in the lead role in Barton Fink the Coen Brothers& hilarious satire set in the 1940s Hollywood Fink is a New York playwright who reluctantly relocates to Hollywood to write screenplays Ordered to write a low budget screenplay about wrestling Fink manages to type one sentence and thennothing! Although his chatty insurance salesman neighbour Charlie helps out by teaching Fink about wrestling the clock ticks the temperature rises and Fink&s life spins more and more out of control Intolerable Cruelty From the Coen brothers comes this witty sharp comedy about a man who wins
in court and courts to win!Divorce attorney Miles Massey has got it all Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth wants it all A hilarious battle of deceit and cunning ensues when Miles falls for Marilyn with each one trying to outsmart the other Underhand tactics deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marilyn and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes Actors Simon Helberg Adam Arkin Brad Pitt George Clooney Tilda Swinton John Malkovich Frances McDormand Jeff Bridges John Goodman Julianne Moore Steve Buscemi Tim Robbins Paul Newman Jennifer Jason Leigh George Clooney & Catherine Zeta JonesDirector Joel Coen & Ethan CoenCertificate 18 years and overYear 2009 ; 2008 ; 1997 ; 1994 ; 1991 ; 2003Screen Widescreen 1851Languages English