Raising Arizona [Blu-ray]

Director: Joel Coen Joel Coen

Overview

Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that he gets to know "Ed," short for Edwina (Holly Hunter), the officer who takes his mug shots. Hi takes a shine to Ed and promises to go straight if she marries him. She accepts, and they move to the Arizona desert, where Hi holds down a factory job and blissfully watches the sunsets with Ed. Their serenity is shattered when the couple decides that they want a child and discover that, as Hi puts it, "Ed's womb was a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase." (One of the film's many delights is Hi's unexpectedly flowery dime-novel narration.) Ed goes into a severe depression until she sees an item in the news. Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson), owner of a chain of unpainted furniture stores, has become the father of quintuplets, and he and his wife joke that they now have more children than they know what to do with. In what seems like a perfect "helps you, helps me" situation, Hi and Ed kidnap one of the Arizona infants, figuring that they'll have a baby and the Arizonas will have less of a burden.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/04/2013
UPC:	5039036058797
Original Release:	1987
Source:	Imports
Language:	English

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Nicolas Cage	Actor
Holly Hunter	Actor
Trey Wilson	Nathan Sr.
John Goodman	Gale
William Forsythe	Evelle,Minister
Randall "Tex" Cobb	Smalls,Actor
T.J. Kuhn	Nathan Jr.
Sam McMurray	Glen
Frances McDormand	Dot
Lynne Dumin Kitei	Florence Arizona
Mary Francis Glenn	Payroll Cashier
Peter Benedek	Prison Counsellor
Charles 'Lew' Smith	Nice Old Grocery Man
Warren Keith	Younger FBI Agent
Sidney Dawson	Ear-bending Cellmate
Richard Blake	Parole Board Chairman
Troy Nabors	Parole Board Member
Mary Seibel	Parole Board Member
John O'Donnal	Hayseed in PickUp
Keith Jandacek	Whitey
Ruben Young	`Trapped' Convict
Dennis Sullivan	Policemen in Arizona House
Dick Alexander	Policemen in Arizona House
Rusty Lee	Feisty Hayseed
James Yeater	Fingerprint Technician
Bill Andres	Reporter
Richard Alexander	Policeman in Arizona House
Carver Barnes	Reporter
Margaret H. McCormack	Unpainted Secretary
Bill Rocz	Newscaster
Mary F. Glenn	Payroll Cashier
Jeremy Babendure	Scamp with Squirt Gun
Bill Dobbins	Adoption Agent
Ralph Norton	Gynecologist
Henry Tank	Mopping Convict
Frank Outlaw	Supermarket Manager
Todd Michael Rogers	Varsity Nathan Jr.
M. Emmet Walsh	Machine Shop Ear-bender
Robert Gray	Glen and Dot's Kid
Katie Thrasher	Glen and Dot's Kid
Derek Russell	Glen and Dot's Kid,Glen and Dot's Kid
Zachary Sanders	Glen and Dot's Kid,Glen and Dot's Kid
Cody Ranger	Arizona Quint
Jeremy Arendt	Arizona Quint
Ashley Hammon	Arizona Quint
Crystal Hiller	Arizona Quint
Olivia Hughes	Arizona Quint
Emily Malin	Arizona Quint,Arizona Quint
William Robertson	Voices
Craig McLaughlin	Arizona Quint
Adam Savageau	Arizona Quint,Arizona Quint
David Schneider	Arizona Quint
Michael Stewart	Arizona Quint

Technical Credits

Ethan Coen

Ethan Coen	Screenwriter,Screenwriter,Director,Producer
Jery Hewitt	Stunts
James Jacks	Executive Producer
Mark Silverman	Producer