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Blood Simple. Blood Simple is a 1984 American independent neo-noir crime film written, edited, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, and M. Emmet Walsh. Its plot follows a Texas bartender who is having a love affair with his boss’s wife.
- $1.5 million
- Carter Burwell
- Ethan Coen
- October 12, 1984 (New York Film Festival)
Girl on Overlook. William Preston Robertson. ... Radio Evangelist (voice) (as Rev. William Preston Robertson) Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Holly Hunter. ... Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited) Barry Sonnenfeld.
A seedy private detective Loren Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) hired by Marty to follow Abby, takes photos of Abby and Ray, when they end up at a local motel together rather than leaving town. Marty makes a menacing wake up phone call to them, making it clear that he is aware of their tryst. The next day Ray confronts Marty at the bar, it ends badly ...
"Blood Simple" was the first feature film from Joel and Ethan Coen. This is the newly restored and re-edited director's cut of the film, introduced by Mortimer Young. The stylish crime thriller ...
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- Joel Coen
- R
- John Getz
Jul 14, 2000 · The genius of "Blood Simple" is that everything that happens seems necessary. The movie's a blood-soaked nightmare in which greed and lust trap the characters in escalating horror. The plot twists in upon itself. Characters are found in situations of diabolical complexity. And yet it doesn't feel like the film is just piling it on.
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Critic_Tanner. Blood Simple. 1984 ★★★★ Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Blood Simple.” is an astonishing thriller. Both on a visceral level and on a written one. The characters and plots seem to double back on themselves multiple times in a logical way, and that is what I think is the secret to its total success.
