Raising Arizona
Absurdist comedy from the Coen brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country For Old Men) starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as an unwanted childless couple who kidnap a baby.
After their grim debut Blood Simple (1984), the Coens surprised with this droll comedy. Nicolas Cage portrays an inane petty thief who – after being released from prison – wants to turn his life around. He begins a relationship with policewoman Edwina (Holly Hunter). The couple desperately want children, but when Edwina turns out to be infertile, they decide to kidnap one baby from the just-born quintuplets of wealthy furniture magnate Nathan Arizona – after all, he has plenty of them. That will be the starting shot of a crazy whirlwind of a film, full of comic book-like characters, action and slapstick-like humour.