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A Simple Plan (DVD)

Billy Bob Thornton (actor), Bill Paxton (actor) and Sam Raimi (director)

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Review

Total Film, 07/01/2000, p.106, "...One of the most touching noirs yet made..."

Entertainment Weekly, 02/05/1999, p.49, "...Lean, elegant, and emotionally complex -- a marvel of backwoods classicism..." -- Rating: A

USA Today, 12/24/1998, p.4D, "...Well acted and tautly assembled..." -- 3 out of 4 stars

Premiere, 10/01/1998, p.28, "Billy Wilder meets the Coen brothers, in Raimi's quietly powerful adaptation of Scott Smith's roman noir..."

New York Times, 12/11/1998, p.E16, "...Gripping and unsettling....When you get the shivers watching this wintry tale unfold, it won't be from the cold..."

Sight and Sound, 06/1999, p.32-52, "...Its emotional power and subtlety put it in a class of its own..."

Rolling Stone, 12/10/1998, p.132, "...A morality tale of steadily mounting tension....[A] sharp, subtle work..."

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Widescreen Anamorphic
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical
Interactive Features:
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection

Product Notes

Like the Coen brothers' FARGO, Sam Raimi's A SIMPLE PLAN is an ice-cold neo-noir as chilling and bleak as its snow-covered Minnesota locale. When two brothers, straightlaced family man Hank (Bill Paxton) and simple-minded loser Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton)--along with Jacob's unabashed town-drunk friend Lou (Brent Briscoe)--find 4.4 million dollars inside a crashed plane, they believe they've found the financial answer to all their problems. All they have to do is keep it a secret until the plane is discovered and any investigations are completed. This proves to be easier said than done, however, when the three men (as well as Hank's surprisingly calculating wife, Sarah, played by Bridget Fonda), each with their different reasons, begin to lose trust in the others. When an FBI agent (Gary Cole) comes to town, the tension becomes explosive, peeling away layers of familial resentment and resulting in betrayal, deceit, and, ultimately, murder. Thornton's brilliantly understated and profoundly moving performance was recognized by the Academy with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, while the taut script, by crime writer Scott B. Smith from his own novel, was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.



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