Product Description

Vowing to go straight, a convenience store banditt (Nicolas Cage) proposes marriage to the police departments photographer (Holly Hunter). All is wedded bliss until they discover she's unable to get pregnant and are turned down by every adoption agency in town. It does not take long before they realize the only solution is to kidnap one of the town's celebrated quintuplets and hit the road!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4895 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE
• Released on: 1999-08-03
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 94 minutes

Customer Reviews

Raising laughter all the way
The Coen brothers are not known for monotony. Each film in their repertoire is different to the other. They can do action and comedy equally well as separate projects, but in Raising Arizona, they combine the two to good effect. The storyline is not very complex - Nicholas Cage (H.I.) and Holly Hunter (Ed) find that they cannot have a baby by natural means and conspire to kidnap one of the quintuplets (Nathan Junior) of the richest man in town, Nathan of Unpainted Arizona furniture stores fame. The only problem is that H.I.'s past as a convenience store bandit comes back to haunt him in the form of two of his colleagues from prison who want him to take part in one last `job'. This is crazy enough, but you also get a crazed bounty hunter on a motorcycle.
There are plenty of laughs on the way as everything doesn't exactly go to plan. There are some genuinely sad moments too. The Coens even give us a dose of action here and there to keep the momentum going. At the end of the day, everything works well to keep the viewer entertained for around 90 minutes.
Nic Cage looks young, thin and different in this film. It reminds us that he can do comedy well although he has become an action star. Holly Hunter too gives a superb performance. Nathan Junior the baby is simply gorgeous, though I do not whether any CGI effects had been used for some of the sequences involving the five babies. Cage and Hunter have not been paired again as far as I know. The (mainly outdoor) photography is also excellent. If you are a Coen Brothers or a comedy fan, add this to your collection, but some fans might want to wait for the blu-ray.

Revisit Raising Arizona
Years ago I watched the movie and didn't like it (VHS). I had a friend who loved it. I was "forced" to watch it more than twice. This time I liked it... not an all-time favorite, but a fun movie with some subtle classic lines. I actually couldn't remember any of it from before.

I had higher expectations.
A colleage from work said that this was one of the best movies he had seen unfortunately I cannot agree. I was very disappointed in this movie. ...though I am not much into Nicolas Cage either.