Raising Arizona (1987)

A childless couple unable to adopt decide that a couple who just had quintuplets won't mind if they steal one of the babies. Thus begins the Coen brothers' madcap romp RAISING ARIZONA. Holly Hunter stars as Ed, a cop who is devastated when she learns that she cannot get pregnant. Nicolas Cage is her husband, H.I., an ex-con who wants nothing more than to make his wife the happiest woman in the world. So if she wants a baby, she's going to have a baby, one way or another.

Heading up the supporting cast of bizarre characters are John Goodman and William Forsythe as crazy cousins who have just busted out ...
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of prison, Sam McMurray and Frances McDormand as Ed and H.I.'s swinging friends, and Randall "Tex" Cobb as a motorcycle madman hired to rescue the baby. RAISING ARIZONA is the Coen brothers' most consistently funny film. Carter Burwell's score, replete with infectious yodeling, is relentless, Barry Sonnenfeld's cinematography is beautifully wacky, and the manic dialogue is the brothers' most quotable. The film is a treat for the ears and the eyes, a one-of-a-kind sensation from a marvelous pair of filmmakers.
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A two-bit swindler and a sexy jazz chanteuse team-up to steal a priceless gem known as the "Light of the East" in director Jeong Yong-gi's period adventure. It's the 1940s, and Korea is still under Japan's colonial rule. Devil may care adventurer Bong-gu and thrill-seeking jazz singer Chun-ja are after the "Light of the East," an enormous diamond set on a Buddhist statue in Seokguram cave. Though their mission is thwarted when Japan's head manages to reach the gem first, Bong-gu and Chun-ja scheme to infiltrate the party being thrown to celebrate the acquisition and steal away with the "Light of the East" before ...
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it is sent to Japan.
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Herbert I. McDonough, in de omgang gewoon HI, en Edwina vormen een ongewoon paar. HI is een onverbeterlijke kruimeldief, Ed een voormalige agente op wie HI tijdens zijn gevangenschap verliefd werd. Maar wanneer Ed verneemt dat ze nooit kinderen zal kunnen krijgen, plant het tweetal een diefstal. Ze zullen één kindje stelen van een rijke meubelgigant, dat gezegend werd met een vijfling. De ganse ontvoering loopt echter niet van een leien dakje en het jonge stel heeft bovendien geen ervaring met baby's. En dan zijn er nog zijn ontsnapte ex-companen Gale en Evelle die op een avond aan zijn deur staan...

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