'Hi' McDonnough is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who wants to kidnap one of the five sons of locally famous furniture magnate Nathan Arizona, whom they believe to be Nathan Junior with his wife. But their lives get more complicated than they anticipated when a Harley-riding bounty hunter gets on their trail.
6 July 1921, Indiana, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
23 June 1957, Chicago, Illinois, USA
21 January 1948, Houston, Texas, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
7 January 1964, Long Beach, California, USA
2 May 1985, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
March 21, 2010
The immense joy of this is in the realization that, for all their precision, Joel and Ethan Coen are essentially comic barnstormers rather than frigid ironistsNovember 06, 2007
While film is filled with many splendid touches and plenty of yocks, it often doesn't hold together as a coherent story.June 24, 2006
Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet.March 13, 2009
To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a...dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers.May 20, 2003
Like Blood Simple, it's full of technical expertise but has no life of its own.October 31, 2006
In a shrewdly calculated move to show their versatility, the Coens made this madcap comedy right after Blood Simple. If their debut was slow and spare, this one has breathneck pacing and hopping banter by terrific Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage.November 06, 2007
An entertaining, energetic, and stylish comedy about a simple but loving couple who long to be parents.March 13, 2009
Sharp, inventive and hilarious, with a marvellous cast of Coen regulars.November 06, 2007
The cartoon vision of southwestern tackiness doesn't cut very deep, but the mise-en-scene is packed with clever clutter.January 30, 2017
In their first masterpiece, the Coens first delight with sheer kinetics, then dazzle with colorful colloquialisms & verbal voodoo, and eventually disarm you with the grace and guile through which they examine modern foibles, failures and forgiveness.