DVD : Raising Arizona
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CAGE,NICOLAS
EAN: 9786305499121
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305499128
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 1999
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 3631
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1987
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Vowing to go straight, a convenience store banditt (Nicolas Cage) proposes marriage to the police departments photographer (Holly Hunter). All is wedded bliss until they discover she's unable to get pregnant and are turned down by every adoption agency in town. It does not take long before they realize the only solution is to kidnap one of the town's celebrated quintuplets and hit the road!
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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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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.
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The Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning triumph for "No Country for Old Men" seemed to me as much recognition of two decades of excellent, if quirky, filmmaking as it was celebration of that specific film masterpiece. Their films defy categorization, although I think it is safe to say that most of the films lean more towards "comedy" or "drama". One of their trademarks is adding humor to their dramas, and few comedies come with darker moments than theirs. For me, "Raising Arizona" represents their best and most outrageous comedy, and since their list of comedies includes "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "The Big Lebowski" and "Burn After Reading", that's saying something.
Nicolas Cage leads as a dim but good-hearted small time convenience store robber named H.I. McDunnough. Holly Hunter plays Edwina, a policewoman who meets H.I. over and over again, taking the booking photographs and fingerprints of repeat offender H.I. in the brilliant prologue.
Robber H.I. and cop Ed marry and set up homestead in a trailer "on the outskirts of Tempe" (when establishing shots show they are out in the western desert, far from any sign of civilization.) But Edwina's insides are "a rocky place" where H.I.'s "seed could find no purchase" so they are left childless.
While Ed is going through the heartbreak of infertility quintuplets are born to the King of Unfinished Furniture, Nathan Arizona, and his wife Florence. Trey Wilson gives an absolutely brilliant performance ... Read More
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The first 30 minutes are funny and enjoyable mostly due to tickling and witty dialogues. The rest is boring.
**** SPOILER. DO NOT READ this if you HAVE NOT WATCHED the MOVIE ****
The film goes south when the two friends of Nicolas escaped from the prison and visited him in his home. Since then, there are only a couples of
hilarious scenes. One is where the boss suggested wife-swapping. The other is when the kids of his boss wrecked his home.
It gets worse when the bounty hunter started to track Nicolas down. The imagination is so wild that it's not interesting any more.
Anybody who is expecting a child or wants to have one should watch this. It realistically and funnily portraits part of the difficulty of raising a child.
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Coen Brother's film, what more needs to be said. These guys are remarkable at capturing a area's culture, dialect and humor.
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I am a fan of all the Coen brothers' movies, but Raising Arizona is my favorite of them all. It's a gem, and I bought it for all my senior advisees (I'm a high school teacher) as their graduation present. "Okay, then."
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starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe
directed by: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CAGE,NICOLAS
EAN: 9786305499121
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305499128
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 03, 1999
Running Time: 94 minutes
Sales Rank: 3631
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: March 13, 1987
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