A frame from the film. That is all you get.
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2008 film · directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Does Brad Pitt die in Burn After Reading?
He plays Chad Feldheimer, a supporting role.
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Yes.
He does not make it to the credits. It happens around the midpoint.
How it happens, in words. No pictures yet.
Shot in the face in a closet by Harry Pfarrer.
Dim, exuberant gym trainer Chad breaks into Osborne Cox's house to dig up more 'intelligence' and hides in a bedroom closet when Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a jumpy U.S. Marshal sleeping with Cox's wife, comes home. Harry opens the closet door, Chad grins nervously, and Harry reflexively shoots him in the head. Finding no ID and the tags cut from Chad's suit, Harry concludes he's killed a government spy and dumps the body. The CIA later finds the corpse and quietly buries the whole affair.
Abrupt, played for shock comedy; Chad's death comes roughly two-thirds through and derails every character's scheme.
- Cause
- gunshot
- When
- midpoint
- Director
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
- Runtime
- 96 min
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