Joel Coen – Page 3 – Scripts on Screen

Blood Simple

Year:1984

Director:Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Written by:Ethan Coen (Screenplay), Joel Coen (Author), Joel Coen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Blood Simple Script Resources:

Blood Simple Script PDF at The Script Savant
Blood Simple Script at IMSDb
Blood Simple Script at The Daily Script
Blood Simple Script at Screenplays For You
Blood Simple Script - first draft at The Daily Script
Blood Simple Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Blood Simple Script PDF - NO DATE at Script City ($)
Blood Simple Script - ST MARTIN'S ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY SERIES at Amazon ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Barton Fink

Year:1991

Director:Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Written by:Joel Coen (Screenplay), Ethan Coen (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Barton Fink Script Resources:

Barton Fink Script PDF at Script Slug
Barton Fink Script PDF at coenbrothers.net
Barton Fink Script at The Daily Script
Barton Fink Script at The Daily Script
Barton Fink Script at IMSDb
Barton Fink Script at Screenplays For You
Barton Fink Script PDF at Script Fly ($)
Barton Fink Script PDF - 2/19/1990 at Script City ($)

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

A Serious Man

Year:2009

Director:Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Written by:Joel Coen (Writer), Ethan Coen (Writer)

Script Synopsis:It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

A Serious Man Script Resources:

A Serious Man Script PDF at CineFile
A Serious Man Script PDF at filminfocus.com
A Serious Man Script PDF at Script Slug
A Serious Man Script PDF at coenbrothers.net
A Serious Man Script - 2007-06 Draft at IMSDb
A Serious Man Script PDF - REVISED DRAFT. 6/4/2007. at Script City ($)
A Serious Man Script PDF - [UNDATED] at Script Fly ($)
A Serious Man Script PDF - [6/4/2007] at Script Fly ($)
A Serious Man Transcript at scripts.com

Note: Multiple links are listed since (a) different versions exist and (b) many scripts posted become unavailable over time. Please notify me if you encounter a stale link.

Coen Brothers Screenplays

Ethan and Joel Coen, more popularly known as the Coen brothers, have made a name for themselves with their own brand of dark humor and quirky comedy.After garnering critical success with their academy award winning screenplay for Fargo (1996), the Coen brothers’ reputation for tightly written and excellently directed films were only further proven with films such as The Big Lebowski (1998) and O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000). More recently, the brothers have gone on to win the Academy Award for Best picture for their film No Country for Old Men (2007). Nominations for Best Original Screenplay for Burn After Reading (2008) and A Serious Man (2009) soon followed from both the BAFTA and the Academy respectively.

Known as the “two-headed director” within industry circles, this writing and directing tandem only proves the age old maxim that two heads are indeed better than one.

Check out this tandem’s impeccable writing filmography in the scripts below: