Friday, October 1, 2010

99. Raising Arizona (1987)

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There's what's right and there's what's right and never the twain shall meet.

While they didn't hit it really big until a little movie about a cop in North Dakota a few years later, this is the movie where the Coen Brothers really found their niche. Only Joel and Ethan Coen could make a side-splitting comedy about infertility, baby kidnapping, convenience store robbery, and an evil, murderous bounty hunter. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter are absolutely flawless as married couple Hi (short for H.I.) and Ed (short for Edwina) and this movie is worth it just to watch their marital "bliss" unfold. They meet while Ed, a policewoman, is taking Hi's mugshot, and then it gets wierd...

Off to Chapel Hill to see them Pirates play this afternoon so today's post is early and I'm not making any promises about tomorrow's post...

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