Burn After Reading

At the CIA headquarters in Arlington, Va., analyst Osbourne Cox (John Malkovich) arrives for a top secret meeting. Unfortunately for Cox, the secret is soon out: he is being busted. Cox does not take the news well and returns to his Georgetown home to work on his memoirs and his drinking, not necessarily in that order. His wife Katie (Tilda Swinton) is dismayed, though not particularly surprised; she is already well into an illicit affair with Harry Pfarrer (George Clooney), a married federal marshal, and sets about making plans to leave Cox for Harry.
Elsewhere in Washington, D.C. suburbs, and seemingly worlds apart, Hardbodies Fitness Centers employee Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) can barely concentrate on her work. She is consumed with her life plan for cosmetic surgery, and confides her mission to can-do colleague Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt). Linda is all but oblivious to the fact that the gym`s manager Ted Treffon (Richard Jenkins) pines for her even as she arranges dates via the internet with other men.
When a computer disc containing material for the CIA analyst`s memoirs accidently falls into the hands of Linda and Chad, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. As Ted frets, No good can come of this, events spiral out of everyone`s and anyone`s control, in a cascading series of darkly hilarious encounters.