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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792155478
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305417830
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 22, 1999
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 9847
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1998
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An endless white landscape of rolling hills and snow-blanketed forests. A lonely acoustic score (by Danny Elfman) playing in the background. A vision of rural simplicity portrayed in hushed tones. The stillness is about to shatter. Brothers Hank (Bill Paxton), an accountant at a small-town feed store, and Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton), an unemployed, hygienically challenged dim bulb, accompanied by Jacob's oafish pal Lou (Brent Briscoe), stumble across a downed plane in the brush containing a corpse and a sack containing millions of dollars--surely the aftermath of a drug deal, they conclude. Greed overcomes good sense, and the three agree to hide the money for a year and keep the secret to themselves. A simple plan indeed, and it doesn't take long for it to go all to hell as the lure of wealth tears at kinship and friendship, and the ruthless machinations of impetuous partners leave a body count in its wake. Bridget Fonda costars as Hank's wife, whose initial hesitation gives way to cold-blooded plotting. Sam Raimi, best known for wowing audiences with stylistic gymnastics and manic mayhem, directs this quietly desperate thriller with chilly restraint, finding its cold, tragic heart in the estranged relationship between Hank and Jacob: the college boy blind to the truth of his own family and the town loser whose tortured soul reveals a humanity lost on his brother (a brilliant performance by Thornton). Adapted by Scott B. Smith from his acclaimed novel. --Sean Axmaker
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Set against the desolation of an upper-Midwest winter, "a simple plan" brings to mind another snow blanketed tale of greed-fueled tragedy, namely "Fargo". In the Coen brother's cynical depiction of human nature at its worst, the ever-present North Dakota snow became a metaphor for the emotional and ethical bankruptcy of the small town losers who's petty problems led to cold-blooded murder.
Sam Rami approaches a similar theme from a somewhat different angle, preferring to frame his protagonists ... Read More
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On a snowy day in the rural Midwest, three men--two brothers and one of their buddies--stumble across the wreckage of a small airplane and discover that there is over $4,000,000 in cash (and a very dead pilot) on board. Realizing that the money is probably the ill-gotten spoils of some sort of criminal activity, the trio devises a "simple" plan that may allow them to keep the booty: they all agree to sit on the cash for a few months and wait for any possible indication that the law is searching for it. If ... Read More
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This underrated film has a great deal of messaging in it worth multiple viewings. Paxton is reliable, Fonda is tricky and Thornton is memorable. Great supporting cast in a film that is much bigger than its understated delivery.
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As you watch this movie, about 3 dillweed country men who happen upon $4 million in a crashed and forgotten plane, you'll think, "What would *I* do?" Clearly the movie's characters make some colossal mistakes, but the frustration the viewer feels is intentional, just like jump scenes in a thriller, or tears in a chick-flick.
I'm not a big fan of Bill Paxton, but he does well in this role as a "college edumacated" feed mill worker. It's a good role for him. However, Billy Bob Thornton, who I personally ... Read More
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