
Raising Arizona
Joel and Ethan Coen hit their stride with this sun-bleached, live-action cartoon about an ex-con and an ex-cop who steal a quintuplet to start an illicit family. Driven by Nicolas Cage's twitchy sweetness and Holly Hunter's ferocious maternal zeal, the film barrels forward on breathless whip-pans and poetic redneck dialogue. The pacing never flags, treating the kidnapped toddler not as a sentimental prop, but as a silent anchor in a world of deranged bounty hunters and bumbling bank robbers. For audiences craving movies like Look Who's Talking, this frantic gem delivers the ultimate marriage of domestic panic and baby-centric slapstick, swapped from urban Manhattan to the surreal Arizona desert.








