Raising Arizona | | Cast : | Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter | | Director : | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | | Studio : | Twentieth Century Fox | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | March 13, 1987 | | DVD Released Date : | February 01, 2005 | | Language : | French (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 23, 2005 | | Summary | Great fun! 4 and 1/2 stars | Content
 | I enjoyed watching this movie last night as it was fun and quite funny. The acting is great notably by Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter and John Goodman. The jokes were great and memorable and I found myself on the floor rolling with laughter at some parts. The music is a little too crazy at times but it's hilarious. The janitor is so funny! I love thee manhunter guy who throws the grenade at the rabbit! That was absolutely hilarious!!!!!!!
The movie is about Hi and Ed, a newly married couple who cannot conceive a child. No adoption agency will give them a baby as Hi has a criminal past. So, they steal Nate Jr. the son of the rich and hilarious Nathan Arizona. So now everyone is on the lookout for this baby and there's a huge reward. The manhunter is one guy trying to get the baby and even two excaped convicts and once friends of Hi are trying to get little Nate Jr.
The movie has many memorable hilarious scenes like when the police is running after Hi. Priceless fun. "You've got a panty over yur head!!!!!!!!!!" Ha Ha !!!!!!!!!
But, my favorite line was when one of the Snoat brothers tells the owner of a store at a gas station to count to 850 and back. At 799, he's like "bull sh**" when suddenly the Snoat brothers drive full blast down the road screaming at the top of their lungs because they forget Nathan Jr. The owner freaks out and gets back on the floor and counts again!
The movie may be cheesy and the music may be annoying at times but it's still great fun and you'll be laughing nonstop!
This is how I rank the 3 Coen Brothers movies that I saw:
1. Fargo- By far the best!
2. Raising Arizona- Awesome! Hilarious!
3. The Big Lebowski- pretty funny but too many cuss words! |
| Rating | | | Date | July 11, 2005 | | Summary | WARNING: AN INNOCENT BUNNY GETS BLOWN UP IN THIS FILM!!!!!! | Content
| After all these years, this still remains my favorite film by those very wacky and talented Coen brothers. It's just a shame this didn't do so well at the box office upon its initial release, but I suppose one can tribute that to the general public at the time not being quite ready for such comedic greatness, lol. Just take my word for it and many other reviewers on here as well: ADD IT TO YOUR COLLECTION, PRONTO!
Note: Nic Cage doesn't get ANY better than this when it comes to sheer comedy! His best performance by far in that sense.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 06, 2005 | | Summary | Raising Arizona: psycho-social fundamentalists | Content
| My favorite Coen Brother film might be Raising Arizona. It is the story of a convenient-store robber named Hi (Nicolas Cage) who falls in love with a police-booking officer named Ed (Holly Hunter). And for love, Hi goes straight until about page ten when Hi and Ed decide that they need a child to complete the "family unit." Unfortunately, Ed is "barren" and Hi is an ex-con, so they are unlikely either to conceive or to adopt. But Nathan and Florence Arizona-owners of the Arizona Unpainted Furniture dynasty-have just had quintuplets, and according to the headlines, it's "more than they can handle." Ed persuades Hi that they should take one, and so they do, stumbling into a story spiral that will never quite let up. They take Nathan Jr. back to their "suburban starter home"--a trailer in a largely empty expanse of desert--where they are visited in turns by Hi's boss, Glen, who brings his wife and frightening tribe of children, by escaped convicts Evelle and Gail Snopes and by a bounty-hunter on a motor cycle. Each proves a threat to the integrity of the newly, if illegally, formed family unit--if only by critiquing their parenting skills. Glen feels Hi needs to lighten up and swap wives. Glen's wife feels a shrieking panic when she learns that Nathan Jr. has yet to have his "Dip-tet." Evelle and Gail think breast-feeding is an absolute must without which the child will end up in prison just as they did. And the bounty--hunter wants the child in order to claim the $25,000 reward though he kindly intends to rough up the kid-nappers for free. In the end, they all recognize Nathan Jr. and want the reward of his love or the reward for his return. And when he is then kid-napped from the kidnappers, it results in a chase that ends in kindness, charity and an explosion--after which the movies' epilogue gently lowers our expectations down onto the sad, sweet melancholy of Hi's last dream.
When you look at the filmography of the Coen Brothers, you may wonder at their variety, at their breadth. They seem to be able to work in any number of genres. But, in truth, they have only ever worked in but one: a zany film noir. And while those who love them, like myself, can provide you with a rather long list of objects, character types and thematic elements that regularly occur in their films--hats, vomiting, kidnapping, howling fat men, dreams--I am rather more interested in their portrayal of a world inhabited by psycho-social fundamentalists, who take everyone at his or her word-literally-and who are incapable of suspicion, of divining ill-intent. They are, more often than not, people who dream of having what is really no more than the ordinary fare of ordinary people; people who dream of living in what other people seek to escape. Hi and Ed are a warm trailer trash version of the farm couple in Grant Wood's American Gothic. And Hi is probably the better example. Is he an innocent or a well-meaning, conscious-less idiot? Terminally straight-faced, he describes his life and story in long, calm periods with dickensian qualification whether he is being fired at by a convenient store clerk with a gun many times bigger than his own; is being chased by police who fire non-stop and indiscriminently down residential streets, into occupied homes and through busy super-markets; or is being beaten senseless by the warthog from hell--none of which, incidentally, is as frightening as Glen's pre-schoolers. When you add the rush and erratic veer of the shaky cam shots and the distance-distorting wide-angle lenses, the result is an overwhelming visual for a life swiftly picking up speed in its downward spiral. But Hi is forever deadpan and earnest with only his hair to signal a kind of frenzied surprise at the unexpected mysteries of just getting through another day. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 23, 2005 | | Summary | Son you gotta panty on your head | Content
| I have seen this movie more times than I can count. This is one of the funniest quirky flicks that I have ever seen. John Goodman is great as a escaped con. You will love this movie, or my name isn't Nathan Arizona!! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 24, 2005 | | Summary | Makes me Sad..... | Content
| I'll never forget the wonderful surprise this movie was. In 1987 , I'd not seen BLOOD SIMPLE(not that BLOOD SIMPLE would be any kind of an indicator)so it was my first Coen brothers experience. The synopsis above spells out exactly what you can expect in terms of narrative but as with most Coen brothers adventures, the fun lies as much in their execution as anything else. At that point in time, no director(or directors)had approached this genre with such an innovative eye & here they're ably assisted by Barry Sonnenfeld"s dizzying cinematography. Watch for a jaw-dropping chase sequence involving a pack of dogs, a couple of cops, a unique supermarket visit, home invasion & an airborne Nicholas Cage. Wacky & off-centre, sadly The Coens don't really do work like this anymore...INTOLERABLE CRUELTY? THE LADYKILLERS? Forget it! This one is the core of their humour...Keep an eye out for Frances McDormand who almost steals the film with her 4 minute appearance...Cage & Holly Hunter are outstanding... |
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