Raising Arizona
| Year: | 1987 |
| Director: | Joel Coen |
| Producer: | Ethan Coen |
| Writer: | Joela Coen/Ethan Coen |
| Cast: | Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Frances McDormand |
One of the Coens' best simply because it's one of the most overtly comic. Containing black humour rather than just blackness, it tells of a mismatched couple (Cage and Hunter) who decide to steal one of a set of quintuplets because they can't have their own.
Trying to hold onto the baby amid various thugs and goons from both their past days (she as a cop, he as a thief) proves harder than they thought, and produces some great, clever comedy. A perfectly understated performance by longtime Coen fixture Goodman in particular.
Trying to hold onto the baby amid various thugs and goons from both their past days (she as a cop, he as a thief) proves harder than they thought, and produces some great, clever comedy. A perfectly understated performance by longtime Coen fixture Goodman in particular.