Variety
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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Raising Arizona
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.
1987Rating: PG, Violence94 minsUSA
ComedyCrimeDramaRomance
- Director:
- Joel CoenEthan Coen ('The Big Lebowski', 'Fargo', 'True Grit')
- Writer:
- Ethan CoenJoel Coen
- Cast:
- Nicolas CageHolly HunterTrey WilsonJohn GoodmanWilliam ForsytheSam McMurrayFrances McDormandRandall 'Tex' Cobb
Raising Arizona / Reviews
Time Out
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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Like Blood Simple, it's full of technical expertise but has no life of its own.
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Los Angeles Times
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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Empire Magazine
Hilarious, madcap comedy from the Coen brothers that demonstrates just why they are the kings of quirk.
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