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Raising Arizona (1987)

Name: Raising Arizona
Director: Ethan Coen
Genre: comedy film, action film, comedy drama
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 7.3

Raising Arizona is a 1987 American crime comedy film written, directed and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Nicolas Cage as H.I. "Hi" McDunnough, an ex-convict, and Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, a former police officer and his wife. Other members of the cast include Trey Wilson, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Sam McMurray, and Randall "Tex" Cobb.

Directed by Ethan Coen · Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld · Cut by Michael R. Miller · Music by Carter Burwell · Ratio 1.85:1 · 91 min

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Behind the scenes

How Raising Arizona Made Nicolas Cage A Star — JoBlo Originals · 11 min
Simon Pegg on Raising Arizona: "It's a living, breathing Looney Tunes cartoon" | BFI — BFI · 13 min

Elsewhere

More by Ethan Coen

Blood Simple — 1984
Miller's Crossing — 1990
Barton Fink — 1991
The Hudsucker Proxy — 1994
Fargo — 1996
The Big Lebowski — 1998
O Brother, Where Art Thou? — 2000
Intolerable Cruelty — 2003
The Ladykillers — 2004
Paris, je t'aime — 2006
No Country for Old Men — 2007
To Each His Own Cinema — 2007
Burn After Reading — 2008
A Serious Man — 2009
True Grit — 2010
Inside Llewyn Davis — 2013
Hail, Caesar! — 2016
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs — 2018
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind — 2022
Drive-Away Dolls — 2024
Honey Don't! — 2025

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