Barton Fink, a recently lauded New York playwright, has made his way to Los Angeles to take a job as a studio screenwriter. What follows is a series of increasingly odd, dangerous, and depressing...

Barton Fink, a recently lauded New York playwright, has made his way to Los Angeles to take a job as a studio screenwriter. What follows is a series of increasingly odd, dangerous, and depressing events that stop Barton from writing a simple Wallace Berry Wrestling film, not the least of which is his traveling salesmen neighbor.