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Raising Arizona Movie Review Summary

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman, Trey Wilson, Frances McDormand

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RAISING ARIZONA is a movie written, produced and directed by the Coen brothers in 1987.
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H.I., after a few stays in the penitentiaries, asks Ed, a policewoman, to marry him. A few months later, Ed, obsessed with the idea of bearing a child, suffers from a nervous breakdown when she learns that she can't have one.

The couple decides to kidnap a child. But happiness won't last long for H.I., Ed and Nathan Jr. as two escaped convicts ask H.I. for shelter and as the mean bounty hunter Leonard Smalls is tracking them.
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Plot & Themes

Comedy, primarily    -   Yes Time/era of movie:    -   1980's-1999 Comedy or Parody about    -   criminals

Main Character

Identity:    -   Male Profession/status:    -   thief/con artist Age:    -   20's-30's Ethnicity/Nationality    -   White American

Setting

United States    -   Yes The US:    -   West Desert?    -   Yes Misc setting    -   prison

Writing Style

Accounts of torture and death?    -   moderately detailed references to deaths Sex/nudity in movie?    -   Yes What kind of sex:    -   vague references only

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