Raising Arizona

When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family’s quintupelets, their lives get more complicated than they anticipated.

• Director:Ethan Coen
• Genre:Action / Comedy / Crime
• Runtime:94 minutes

Cast

Nicolas Cage : H.I. McDunnough
Holly Hunter : Edwina ‘Ed’ McDunnough
Trey Wilson : Nathan Arizona
John Goodman : Gale Snoats
William Forsythe: Evelle Snoats

Criminal Herbert I. “Hi” McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) and policewoman Edwina “Ed” (Holly Hunter) meet after she takes the mugshots of the recidivist. With continued visits, Hi learns that Ed’s fiancé has left her. Hi proposes to her after his latest release from prison, and the two get married. They move into a desert mobile home, and Hi gets a job in a machine shop. Ed discovers that she is infertile and find they are unable to adopt due to Hi’s criminal record. The couple learns of the “Arizona Quints,” sons of locally famous furniture magnate Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson); Hi and Ed kidnap one of the five babies, whom they believe to be Nathan Junior.

Hi and Ed return home and are soon visited by Hi’s prison buddies, Gale and Evelle Snoats (John Goodman, William Forsythe), who have just broken out. Under the brothers’ influence, Hi is tempted to revert to his felonious ways. Their problems get worse when Hi’s supervisor, Glen (Sam McMurray), proposes wife swapping which results in Hi assaulting him. That night, Hi decides to steal a package of diapers for the baby and goes on the run from the entire local neighborhood, the police, the gun-toting store cashier, and a pack of dogs. Ed finally relents and picks him up, leading to a tense ride home.

At the McDunnough residence the next day, Glen approaches Hi to fire him and reveal that he has deduced “Junior’s” identity. Gale and Evelle overhear this conversation and turn on Hi, tying him up and taking Junior for themselves. Gale and Evelle leave with plans to rob a “hayseed” bank with Junior in tow. When Ed comes home, she frees Hi and the two arm themselves and set out to retrieve their child together. En route, Ed suggests that they should end their marriage after recovering the boy. Nathan Arizona Sr. is approached by the bounty hunter Leonard Smalls (Randall “Tex” Cobb) who offers to find the child. Nathan Sr. refuses to partake of Smalls’ services. Smalls decides to recover the child anyway to sell on the black market. He begins tracking Gale and Evelle and learns of their bank robbery plans. Read more

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