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- A terrifically original, eccentric screwball comedy, Raising Arizona may not be the Coens' most disciplined movie, but it's one of their most purely entertaining.
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Since the basic idea of the movie is a good one and there are talented people in the cast, what we have here is a film shot down by its own forced and mannered style. The movie stars Nicholas Cage as the guy who sticks up all-night grocery stores, and Holly Hunter as the policewoman who falls in love with him while taking his mug shots.
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- The Second Film
- Casting Cage
- Woody Woodpecker
- Holly Hunter
- The Quintuplets
- Leonard Smalls
- The Hudsucker Proxy
- Sam Raimi
- The Score
- Public Backlash
After the Coen brothers finding acclaim with their small yet gripping first film, Blood Simple, Hollywood was very interested to see what these exciting new filmmakers would do for their second feature. In a move that would come to define their careers, the Coens decided to make something totally different. They actively tried to make a film that w...
For the role of the good-hearted career criminal H.I. McDunnough, the Coens decided to cast one of the most unique actors of the time, Nicolas Cage. Cage had yet to reach that level of superstardom he would later find, and this was his first starring role. RELATED: National Treasure: Nicolas Cage's 10 Best Movies According To IMDb The relationship ...
Though Cage and the Coens apparently didn't agree on everything, they seemed to be on the same page with the tone of the film. The movie plays out like a live-action cartoon and Cage even saw H.I. as a cartoon character, specifically Woody Woodpecker. Along with getting a tattoo of a Woody Woodpecker-like drawing on his arm for the role, Cage tried...
The other central role that needed to be cast was that of Ed, H.I.'s tough and loving wife. Unlike their casting search for H.I., the Coens knew exactly who they wanted to play Ed — Holly Hunter was an up-and-coming actor at the time and friends with the brothers. Hunter was actually the Coens' first choice for the leading lady of Blood Simple. Whe...
There is an old saying in the movie business that you shouldn't work with babies or animals. While there aren't too many animals in this film, the Coens had to work with quite a few babies. The "Arizona Quints" are at the center of the story, with H.I. and Ed taking one of the babies for themselves, thinking the parents had more than they could han...
One of the most memorable characters in the film is the motorcycle-riding gunman known as Leonard Smalls. In creating the character, the Coens attempted to come up with a terrifying, nightmarish figure who came not from their own minds, but from the mind of H.I.. The filmmakers cast professional boxer Randall "Tex" Cobb in the role. Though he certa...
Originally, when planning their second feature, the Coens had another story in mind that they wanted to tackle. They had intended on turning their script for The Hudsucker Proxyinto their next film, but the budget required to tell that ambitious story was still too high for them to acquire at the time. Though they would eventually get the chance to...
Before he was making big-budget superhero movies, Sam Raimi was a small yet influential filmmaker who had made a significant splash with his Evil Deadfilms. Raimi was also a close friend of the Coens and even collaborated with them several times. RELATED: 5 Things We Miss From Sam Raimi's Spider-Man Trilogy (& 5 That We Don't) The Coens had written...
While the film itself is a funny and entertaining ride, it gets a lot of its charm and energy from its extremely memorable score. The score comes from a frequent collaborator of the Coens, Carter Burwell. The influence behind it was meant to be Southern charm mixed with the Looney Tunes. The wild banjo playing mixed with the yodeling makes for a ca...
While this cartoonish and hilarious movie would seem too silly and fun to inspire any kind of outrage, there were some people who were not too happy about it. Specifically, the good people of Arizona took offense to the film's depiction of their state. The backlash reached surprisingly high as even the mayor of Scottsdale, Arizona lambasted the fil...
Raising Arizona is a 1987 American crime comedy film written, directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Nicolas Cage as H.I. "Hi" McDunnough, an ex-convict, and Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, a former police officer and his wife.
Feb 20, 2024 · Great news: Raising Arizona holds up. The characters are flawed in a way that was pretty ahead of its time. They're terrible, but also hilarious. They just want a baby! There's a lot of swearing (so it's a no-go if you don't want to hear "son-of-a-b*tch" on repeat).
May 9, 2023 · Raising Arizona is the story of a retired cop named Ed (Holly Hunter) and a reformed criminal named H.I. (Nicolas Cage) getting married, learning they can’t conceive a child, and making the...
May 3, 2020 · A pitch-perfect deadpan comic thriller that introduced the world to the Coen brothers' idiosyncratic sense of humor. Read the review!
Apr 10, 1987 · Raising Arizona: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman. When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.
