Film
Raising Arizona
- Director
- Joel Coen
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 94 mins
Childless couple Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter – he a (largely) reformed smalltime crook, she an ex-cop – kidnap a toddler but find their plans to have a happy family going awry. The most divisive entry in the Coen brothers’ oeuvre, this 1987 flick is hailed by its champions as a comedy that’s as exciting as any thriller, being assured and daring with terrific one-liners and likeably childish characters. Detractors include veteran film critic David Thomson: “Raising Arizona was, for me, close to unwatchable: unfunny, technologically impelled, showy and not just empty but condescending.”
It’s back on screen in the Everyman’s late night classics season.
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