Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona
by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

Raising Arizona
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Actor: Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Nicolas Cage, Trey Wilson, William Forsythe
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
Running Time: 94 minutes
Release Date: 1996-01-10
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Movie Review: Greatest ever
Summary: 5 Stars

There was a time, many many years ago, before National Treasure, Ghostrider and Bangkok Dangerous, that Nicholas Cage was in the greatest movie of all time. That movie, was Raising Arizona. If you haven't seen it, please start a Netflix account right now and queue up 4 movies and watch in this order:

1st - National Treasure (wow, did I just sit through that?)
2nd - Ghostrider (wow, someone in Hollywood funded this?)
3rd - Bangkok Dangerous (wow, this is on DVD already? I saw it just opened last week in the theater???)

at this point, you are going to want to jump out of a window, but before you do, there is 1 more movie you have to watch......

4th - Raising Arizona (my god, this is the greatest movie of all time!!!!)


You have now seen the greatest movie of all time, and will forget that Gone in Sixty Seconds, Lord of War, Next, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Face Off, The Rock, and Con Air was ever even made.

Summary of Raising Arizona

Blood Simple made it clear that the cinematically precocious Coen brothers (writer-director Joel and writer-producer Ethan) were gifted filmmakers to watch out for. But it was the outrageously farcical Raising Arizona that announced the Coens' darkly comedic audacity to the world. It wasn't widely seen when released in 1987, but its modest audience was vocally supportive, and this hyperactive comedy has since developed a large and loyal following. It's the story of "Ed" (for Edwina, played by Holly Hunter), a policewoman who falls in love with "Hi" (for H.I. McDonnough, played by Nicolas Cage) while she's taking his mug shots. She's infertile and he's a habitual robber of convenience stores, and their folksy marital bliss depends on settling down with a rug rat. Unable to conceive, they kidnap one of the newsworthy quintuplets born to an unpainted-furniture huckster named Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), who quickly hires a Harley-riding mercenary (Randall "Tex" Cobb) to track the baby's whereabouts. What follows is a full-throttle comedy that defies description, fueled by the Coens' lyrical redneck dialogue, the manic camerawork of future director Barry Sonnenfeld, and some of the most inventively comedic chase scenes ever filmed. Some will dismiss the comedy for being recklessly over-the-top; others will love it for its clever mix of slapstick action, surreal fantasy, and homespun family values. One thing's for sure--this is a Coen movie from start to finish, and that makes it undeniably unique. --Jeff Shannon

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