Movie
Raising Arizona
Overview
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-03-13
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Circle Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as H.I.
- Holly Hunter as Ed
- Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona, Sr.
- John Goodman as Gale
- William Forsythe as Evelle
- Sam McMurray as Glen
- Frances McDormand as Dot
- Randall 'Tex' Cobb as Leonard Smalls
- T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Junior
- Lynne Kitei as Florence Arizona
- Peter Benedek as Prison Counselor
- Charles 'Lew' Smith as Nice Old Grocery Man
Crew
- Joel Coen - Director
- Ethan Coen - Screenplay
- Joel Coen - Screenplay
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