In this early Coen brothers film, Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who decide to help themselves...
In this early Coen brothers film, Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter play a childless couple who decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets.
In the Coen brothers' second feature, an ex-con (Cage) and an ex-cop (Hunter) meet, marry and long for a child of their own. When it is discovered that Edwina (Hunter) is infertile they resort to snatching a baby. The couple tries to keep their crime a secret but soon friends, co-workers and a bounty hunter (Randall "Tex" Cobb) look to use the child for their own purposes.
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91 %65 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
85 %89,453 reviewsAudience score rating
"While [the] film is filled with many splendid touches and plenty of yocks, it often doesn't hold together as a coherent story."
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Variety
Variety"Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet."
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Time Out
Time Out"Like Blood Simple, it's full of technical expertise but has no life of its own."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"What we have here is a film shot down by its own forced and mannered style."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"The astonishing thing about "Raising Arizona" is how it can move so fast, be so loud and remain so relentlessly boring at the same time."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times"Hilarious, madcap comedy from the Coen brothers that demonstrates just why they are the kings of quirk."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineRaising Arizona | Details
- Runtime
- 94
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- USA
