"Rollie! You take that diaper off your head and you put it back on your sister! "

Another new edition to my Dvd collection is the Coen Brother's Classic Raising Arizona. I hadn't seen the whole film until earlier today, only bits and pieces on satellite, but it was in the 5 dollar bin, so I bought it. It's definitely a wacky, funny, and well-directed comedy. It stars Nicolas Cage as HI, who plays a criminal, who is in and out of jail. He falls in love with a police officer named Ed, short for Edwina (Holly Hunter) and they get married. After a while Ed wants a kid, but they find out she is infertile. So they make a plan to steal one from a rich women who just had quintuplets. After they get the baby home, the wackiness goes up a notch. Their friends come over with their kids, escape convict friends come over for a visit and a police chase ensues, on a normal trip for diapers. While all this is happening the couple is being tracked down by "The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse", who is searching for the missing baby. This movie is a real fun watch and can make u laugh a lot. The 3 funniest characters/actors in this movie are; Dot (Frances McDormand), who is a friend of Ed; Evelle (William Forsythe) and Gale (John Goodman) the escape convict friends of HI. The scenes with these characters were definitely the ones that made me laugh the most. I've noticed in a lot of Coen Brother's movies they give many male characters girlish names and give many female characters boyish names. This could be a trait they use because you can see it in this movie and, in "No Country for Old Men", Josh Brolin's character is named Llewelyn. The Dvd cover has the famous pic of Cage, Hunter and the baby sitting on lawnchairs. It Also has some good reviews, like, "The Coen Brothers Deliver! A Wacky, Happy, Daring, Darkly Comic Tale!," says The Washington Post. And Joel Siegel from Good Morning America says, "One of the Most Inventive, Original, Absolutely Wacko Comedies in Years." ( I agree with most of that last review) Raising Arizona was released in 1987 and was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Released by 20 Century Fox and Circle Films.

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Raising Arizona: #550