Raising Arizona | Hitchens Virtual Theatre

Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter and John Goodman star in Ethan and Joel Coen's acclaimed screwball love story filled with mad chases, unexpected plot twists and wild pyrotechnics. Vowing to go straight, a convenience store bandit (Cage) proposes marriage to the police department's photographer (Hunter). All is wedded bliss until they discover she's unable to get pregnant and are turned down by every adoption agency in town. It doesn't take long before they realize the only solution is to kidnap one of the town's celebrated quintuplets and hit the road!

Synopsis: Desperate for a baby, an infertile couple kidnaps the infant son of the owner of the Unpainted Arizona furniture store. At the same time, two unsavory escaped convicts show up at the couple's house and demand to be put up. Things get complicated when the store owner offers a handsome reward for the return of his baby and the escapees begin to figure out that the couple's baby is not really their own flesh and blood.

Production Year:

1987

Released:

Tue, 08/03/1999

Run Time Minutes:

Rating:

PG-13

Genres:

Comedy

Trailer:

Format Aspect Ratio:

1.85-Wide Screen

Resolution:

480x720 LowRez

More Information:

HD-1

Audio Language:

English

Audio Format:

Dolby Digital

Audio Channels:

Dolby Surround

Actors:

Nicolas Cage - H.I. McDunnough

Actors:

Holly Hunter - Edwina 'Ed' McDonnough

Actors:

Trey Wilson - Nathan Arizona (Huffhines) Sr.

Actors:

John Goodman - Gale

Actors:

William Forsythe - Evelle

Actors:

Sam McMurray - Glen

Actors:

Frances McDormand - Dot

Actors:

Randall 'Tex' Cobb - Leonard Smalls

Actors:

T. J. Kuhn Jr. - Nathan Arizona Jr. (as T.J. Kuhn Jr.)

Actors:

Lynne Dumin Kitei - Florence Arizona

Actors:

Peter Benedek - Prison counselor

Actors:

Charles 'Lew' Smith - Nice old grocery man

Actors:

Warren Keith - Younger FBI agent

Actors:

Henry Kendrick - Older FBI agent

Actors:

Sidney Dawson - Moses (ear-bending cellmate)

Actors:

Richard Blake - Parole Board chairman

Actors:

Troy Nabors - Parole Board member

Actors:

Mary Seibel - Parole Board member

Actors:

John O'Donnal - Hayseed in the pickup

Actors:

Keith Jandacek - Whitey

Actors:

Warren Forsythe - Minister

Actors:

Ruben Young - 'Trapped' convict

Actors:

Dennis Sullivan - Policeman in Arizona house

Actors:

Dick Alexander - Policeman in Arizona house

Actors:

Rusty Lee - Feisty hayseed

Actors:

James Yeater - Fingerprint technician

Actors:

Bill Andres - Reporter

Actors:

Carver Barns - Reporter

Actors:

Margaret H. McCormack - Unpainted Arizona secretary

Actors:

Bill Rocz - Newscaster

Actors:

Mary F. Glenn - Payroll cashier

Actors:

Jeremy Babendure - Scamp with squirt gun

Actors:

Bill Dobbins - Adoption agent

Actors:

Ralph Norton - Gynecologist

Actors:

Henry Tank - Mopping convict

Actors:

Frank Outlaw - Supermarket manager

Actors:

Todd Michael Rodgers - Varsity Nathan Jr.

Actors:

M. Emmet Walsh - Machine shop ear-bender

Actors:

Robert Gray - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Katie Thrasher - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Derek Russell - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Nicole Russell - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Zachary Sanders - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Noell Sanders - Glen and Dot's kid

Actors:

Cody Ranger - Arizona quint

Actors:

Jeremy Arendt - Arizona quint

Actors:

Ashley Hammon - Arizona quint

Actors:

Crystal Hiller - Arizona quint

Actors:

Olivia Hughes - Arizona quint

Actors:

Emily Malin - Arizona quint

Actors:

Melanie Malin - Arizona quint

Actors:

Craig McLaughlin - Arizona quint

Actors:

Adam Savageau - Arizona quint

Actors:

Benjamin Savageau - Arizona quint

Actors:

David Schneider - Arizona quint

Actors:

Michael Stewart - Arizona quint

Actors:

William Preston Robertson - Amazing voice

Actors:

Ron Francis Cobert - Reporter 1