“Raising Arizona” met raised expectations
This film by the renown Coen brothers is a quirky, fast paced, and comedic adventure where an odd couple, a former convict played by Nicolas Cage and a police officer played by Holly Hunter, who can’t conceive their own child decide to kidnap a boy and raise him as their own.
Its the 1980s, H.I McDunnough meets and falls in love with a police officer, Ed, while being arrested for armed robbery, after he is freed, he repeats his offense two more times, each time making more and more of a connection with Ed, the police officer until H.I. proposes as a free man and promises to clean up his act. They live out their life peacefully until the odd couple realize they can’t conceive a child or adopt one due to H.I checkered past, they do the next logical thing, steal one from someone who “has too much on their hands” with quintuplets. After kidnapping the child, they struggle with raising him, financial stability, and a visit from some of H.I’s old friends from prison.
I personally feel both actors played their roles well, besides some occasional slips in their already slightly cheesy southwestern accents. Nicolas Cage who plays H.I mcDonnough, a former convict who falls in love with a …show more content…
I personally never lost interest in the film beyond the jumpy and ‘empty’ feeling beginning. Overall I would give this move a 3.5 out of 5, not quite a 4 due to the occasional times where the acting was subpar and the inconsistency of the very start of the
This film by the renown Coen brothers is a quirky, fast paced, and comedic adventure where an odd couple, a former convict played by Nicolas Cage and a police officer played by Holly Hunter, who can’t conceive their own child decide to kidnap a boy and raise him as their own.
Its the 1980s, H.I McDunnough meets and falls in love with a police officer, Ed, while being arrested for armed robbery, after he is freed, he repeats his offense two more times, each time making more and more of a connection with Ed, the police officer until H.I. proposes as a free man and promises to clean up his act. They live out their life peacefully until the odd couple realize they can’t conceive a child or adopt one due to H.I checkered past, they do the next logical thing, steal one from someone who “has too much on their hands” with quintuplets. After kidnapping the child, they struggle with raising him, financial stability, and a visit from some of H.I’s old friends from prison.
I personally feel both actors played their roles well, besides some occasional slips in their already slightly cheesy southwestern accents. Nicolas Cage who plays H.I mcDonnough, a former convict who falls in love with a …show more content…
I personally never lost interest in the film beyond the jumpy and ‘empty’ feeling beginning. Overall I would give this move a 3.5 out of 5, not quite a 4 due to the occasional times where the acting was subpar and the inconsistency of the very start of the