Middle aged people go a little nutty, and the Coen Brothers manage to highlight the most mock worthy of eccentricities through a star studded cast and a killer script.

Osborne Cox (John Malkovich) is reluctantly canned from his CIA post and so as a back up plan embarks on writing his memoirs, much to the chagrin of tight lipped oppressive wife Katie (Tilda Swinton). Soft headed, peppy fitness instructors, Linda and Chad (Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt) think they’ve stumbled upon a political coup when they find a disc containing excerpts from an assumed CIA agent, but in this case ex-CIA, unhappily married, angry heavy drinker Cox. Things get more hysterically complicated when nymphomaniac and twitchy ex security agent Harry (George Clooney) falls into the web of idioctic spy activity that consumes both the real CIA, Russian embassy and Hard Bodies Fitness gym. The film takes a couple scenes to pull the entire upside down charade together, but the dialogue is Coen brother genius and it’s an amusing treat to see slick celebrities Pitt and Clooney take on eccentric quirky characters that fall far from an acceptable IQ level of intelligence. Clever, funny and exciting to watch. JM