Raising Arizona

1987 • 94 minutes
4.6
442 reviews
90%
Tomatometer
PG-13
Rating
Eligible
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H.I. McDonnough is a multiple-convicted armed robber who falls in love with Edwina, a young policewoman who takes his mug shots.  They end up getting married, with H.I. vowing to stop robbing convenience stores.  They try to start a family, but Ed finds out that she is barren.  Since they can't adopt, due to H.I's extensive record, their marriage is going nowhere. Ed goes into a severe depression until she sees an item in the news saying Nathan Arizona, owner of a chain of unpainted furniture stores, has become the father of quintuplets.  Mr. and Mrs. Arizona have been blessed with quintuplets, after Florence Arizona's fertility treatment.  Desperate, Ed convinces H.I. that the Arizonas wouldn't miss one of their babies, having been blessed with so many.  H.I. and Ed kidnap one of the infants, figuring that they'll have a baby and the Arizonas will have less of a load.  Complications arise, when H.I.'s convict friends and his boss also become involved in the scheme to possess...
Rating
PG-13

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4.6
442 reviews
Marty Barone
December 26, 2021
Raising Arizona, 1987. This second film from the Coen Brothers has parts that I could watch again and again!! Specifically, almost every part with Cage and Hunter. The rest of the cast bothers me, even scenes with the fantastic John Goodman! An ex ex con and a barren deputy hook up and steel one of five quintuplets. The movie expects forgiveness and almost achieves it, in this very dark, yet mostly silly film.
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Hannah Kathleen (hamy, banana)
December 23, 2016
I didn't like it it was just kind of stupid the first role I thought both of them didn't fit I mean I like both actors but they didn't really fit the rules like they didn't do a really good job at playing on the rolls I watched the movie with my community theater group and we had better actors who played the rules and we actually bought it and so did the audience but when we showed my parents the movie after the performance we did they definitely thought that a couple people thought that we did it better
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Sam Smith
October 22, 2014
Had this recommended to me by a friend whose taste in films I no longer respect. I don't know whether to blame Cage or the Coens, but that was just terrible.
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