The Coen Brothers are two of the wildest and most innovative talents working in Hollywood. For nigh on thirty years, they've been making movies which refuse to follow convention, often confounding expectations and delivering huge dashes of crazy humour along the way. "Quirky" doesn't do their films justice as a description, but RAISING ARIZONA, their second film, is one of their quirkiest.
Nicolas Cage stars as a small-time con with crazy hair and a penchant for failed convenience store robberies. He falls in love with cute cop Holly Hunter, and along the way the two decide to kidnap a baby belonging to a rich couple (the baby being the 'Arizona' of the title). From then on in, the film is largely a chase flick, with lots of weird characters coming out of the woodwork to pursue the bumbling twosome. Much of the humour comes from the slow southern dialogue of the participants and the outlandish situations in which they find themselves.
John Goodman and William Forsythe make a good comic pairing as two convicts who seem even more accident-prone than Cage and Hunter. The larger-than-life Randall 'Tex' Cobb (UNCOMMON VALOR) plays a figure straight out of a fantasy flick – an apocalyptic angel of death haunting Cage's every step. My favourite scene is the chase, in which Cage finds himself pursued by cops, a large pack of dogs, you name it (if you thought HOT FUZZ was the first film to set OTT action in a mundane shopping scenario, think again). Add in some references to Sam Raimi and a lightning-fast pace and you have a film that can only be described as a wild ride!
Nicolas Cage stars as a small-time con with crazy hair and a penchant for failed convenience store robberies. He falls in love with cute cop Holly Hunter, and along the way the two decide to kidnap a baby belonging to a rich couple (the baby being the 'Arizona' of the title). From then on in, the film is largely a chase flick, with lots of weird characters coming out of the woodwork to pursue the bumbling twosome. Much of the humour comes from the slow southern dialogue of the participants and the outlandish situations in which they find themselves.
John Goodman and William Forsythe make a good comic pairing as two convicts who seem even more accident-prone than Cage and Hunter. The larger-than-life Randall 'Tex' Cobb (UNCOMMON VALOR) plays a figure straight out of a fantasy flick – an apocalyptic angel of death haunting Cage's every step. My favourite scene is the chase, in which Cage finds himself pursued by cops, a large pack of dogs, you name it (if you thought HOT FUZZ was the first film to set OTT action in a mundane shopping scenario, think again). Add in some references to Sam Raimi and a lightning-fast pace and you have a film that can only be described as a wild ride!