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Summary:
Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that he gets to k... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Nicolas Cage - (H.I. McDonnough)
Holly Hunter - (Ed)
Trey Wilson - (Nathan Arizona, Sr.)
John Goodman - (Gale)
William Forsythe - (Evelle)
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Review:
Following their noir debut, Blood Simple (1984), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen turned their idiosyncratic, film-literate attentions to screwball comedy in Raising Arizona (1987). The Coens play the American Dream for farce, as non-violent hold-up man "Hi" (Nicolas Cage) and mug shot photographer Edwina (Holly Hunter) att... Continue >>

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