Raising Arizona (1987)






Crook Hi McDonnough turns his back on a life of crime to marry a police officer. Unable to have children, when they hear that quintuplets have been born nearby they set out to steal one.


Books with substantial mentioning of Raising Arizona

Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
The Coen Brothers and the comedy of democracy
Lanham, 2019

Adam Nayman
Coen brothers
New York, NY, 2018
pp. 36-47 info

Jeffrey Adams
The cinema of the Coen brothers, Hard-boiled entertainments
New York, 2015

Kathryn Bernheimer
The 50 Funniest Movies of All Time, A Critic's Ranking
Secaucus, NJ, 1999

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1990, A Survey of the Films of 1989
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1988, A Survey of the Films of 1987
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 294-298 info

Articles on Raising Arizona

David Edelstein, Invasion of the Baby Snatchers, in: William Rodney Allen (editor), The Coen Brothers, Jackson, Mississippi, 2006

Articles with substantial mentioning of Raising Arizona

Ian Freer, The 10 Best Movie Openings, in: Empire, nr. 161, 2002 pp. 12-13


Year: 1987
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0093822