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Key Information
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| Directors: |
Joel Coen |
| Stars: |
Nicolas Cage |
| Actors: |
Frances McDormand |
| Genre: |
Comedies |
| Subgenre: |
Recommended · Cult Film · Parenthood · Kidnapping · Scams And Cons · Morons · Essential Cinema |
| MPAA Rating: |
PG-13 (MPAA) |
| Available Formats: |
DVD: Widescreen; Canadian; Sensormatic; Spa Cash |
| UPC: |
024543020196 |
| Release Date: |
1987 |
| Running Time: |
1hr 34min |
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Languages
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| Original Language: |
English |
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DVD Editions
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Format: DVD: Widescreen; Canadian; Sensormatic; Spa Cash, 1hr 34min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (May 12, 2009)
UPC: 024543577669 |
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VHS Editions
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Format: VHS: Selections Series, 1hr 34min
Release Company: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (January 09, 1996)
UPC: 086162519130 |
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Credits
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| Screenwriter: |
Ethan Coen |
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Professional Reviews
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(03/20/1987, p.C1, Sheila Benson): "...RAISING ARIZONA is miraculously adept technically....Nicolas Cage has crammed every ounce of sweet earnestness into Hi..." |
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Quotes from the Movie
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"The first time I met Ed was in the county lockup in Tempe, Arizona. The day I'll never forget"--H.I. (Nicolas Cage), in voice-over
"When they was no meat we ate fowl, when there was no fowl we ate crawdad. And when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand."--Cellmate (Sidney Dawson)
"You ate what?"--H.I.
"We ate sand."--Cellmate
"You ate sand?"--H.I.
"That's right."--Cellmate
"So, why do you use the word 'trapped'?"--Prison Counselor
"Huh?"--Prisoner (Ruben Young)
"Why do you say you feel 'trapped' in a man's body?"--Prison Counselor
"Well, sometimes I get the menstrual cramps real hard."--Prisoner
"You're not just telling us what we want to hear?"--Parole board member #1
"No sir, no way."--H.I.
"Cause we just want to hear the truth."--Parole board member #2
"Well, then I guess I am telling you what you want to hear."--H.I.
"Boy, didn't we just tell you not to do that?"--Parole board member #1
"Yes, sir."--H.I.
"Okay then."--Parole board member #1
"Me and Dot went in to adopt on account of somethin' went wrong with my semen and they said we had to wait five years for a healthy white baby. I said, 'Healthy white baby? Five years? Okay, what else ya got?' Said they got two Koreans and a negra born with his heart on the outside...It's a crazy world."--Glen (Sam McMurray)
"Someone oughta sell tickets."--H.I.
"Sure, I'd buy one."--Glen
"...But the doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase."--H.I., in voice-over
"Ed felt that havin' a critter was the next logical step."--H.I., in voice-over
"So come on down to Unpainted Arizona where you can get the finest selection in fixtures and appointments for your bathroom, bedroom, boudoir. And if you can find lower prices anywhere...my name ain't Nathan Arizona!"--Nathan Arizona (Trey Wilson)
"I think we got the best one."--H.I. to Ed (Holly Hunter), regarding the baby, Nathan Jr.
"He's an angel. He's an angel straight from heaven!"--Ed to H.I.
"You...busted out of jail?"--Ed
"No ma'am, uh...we released ourselves on our own recognizance."--Evelle (William Forsythe)
"What Evelle means to say is, we felt that the institution no longer had anything to offer us."--Gale (John Goodman)
"Nathan Jr. accepts me for what I am, and I think you better had too. You know honey, I'm OK, you're OK. That there's what it is!"--H.I. to Ed
"Right, you hayseeds, it's a stick-up. Everybody freeze. Everybody down on the ground."--Gale
"Well, which is it, young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? I mean to say if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop, and if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion. Ya see."--Feisty Hayseed (Rusty Lee)
"Shut up!"--Gale
"Okay then."--Feisty Hayseed
"Do these blow into funny shapes and all?"--Evelle
"Well, no...unless round is funny."--Elderly grocer
"Son, you got a panty on your head."--Hayseed in the Pickup (John O'Donnal) to H.I.
"Gimme that baby, you warthog from hell!"--Ed to Leonard Smalls (Randall "Tex" Cobb)
"I'll be taking these Huggies and, uh, whatever cash you got."--H.I.
"It just ain't family life."--Ed
"Well, it ain't Ozzie and Harriet."--H.I.
"Okay then."--spoken by many characters throughout the film |
| More Information |
| Details: |
A childless couple unable to adopt decide that a couple who just had quintuplets won't mind if they steal one of the babies. Thus begins the Coen brothers' madcap romp RAISING ARIZONA. Holly Hunter stars as Ed, a cop who is devastated when she learns that she cannot get pregnant. Nicolas Cage is her husband, H.I., an ex-con who wants nothing more than to make his wife the happiest woman in the world. So if she wants a baby, she's going to have a baby, one way or another. <br> <br> Heading up the supporting cast of bizarre characters are John Goodman and William Forsythe as crazy cousins who have just busted out of prison, Sam McMurray and Frances McDormand as Ed and H.I.'s swinging friends, and Randall "Tex" Cobb as a motorcycle madman hired to rescue the baby. RAISING ARIZONA is the Coen brothers' most consistently funny film. Carter Burwell's score, replete with infectious yodeling, is relentless, Barry Sonnenfeld's cinematography is beautifully wacky, and the manic dialogue is the brothers' most quot... |
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