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: 20th Century Fox
: Comedies, Independent
: 94 min.
: English, French
: English, Spanish
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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. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Fatherhood in its various manifestations
by MHam
April 12, 2005 - 8:01 PM PDT
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1 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| This movie is a meditation and exploration of the meaning of fatherhood--and of the process of a boy becoming a man becoming a father. Extremely well done and thought-provoking. |
| Coen brothers' masterpiece!
by larbeck
November 5, 2003 - 7:08 PM PST
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1 out of 4 members found this review helpful
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| I had to second that emotion about this being Coen brothers' most consistently funny film. Nothing they have done before or after hits the mark like this one. Cage, Hunter, and Goodman are all at their best and yes, the score is wonderful! If you can watch this and keep a straight face, you need a heart transplant. |
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