Baby Movies » Raising Arizona http://babymovies.net Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:10:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Raising Arizona http://babymovies.net/raising-arizona.html http://babymovies.net/raising-arizona.html#comments Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:44:08 +0000 Huey http://babymovies.net/?p=4 Raising Arizona is a 1987 Coen Brothers comedy film starring Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand and Randall “Tex” Cobb. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved the status of a cult film. Typical Coen Brothers fare, the movie is replete with symbolism, visual gags, yodeling folk music, unconventional characters, flamboyant camera work, pathos and idiosyncratic dialogue. The movie ranked number 31 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Years… 100 Laughs and number 45 on Bravo’s “100 Funniest Movies.”

Production

The police station scenes were filmed at the Tempe, Arizona police station on 5th Street next to Sun Devil Stadium on the Arizona State University campus, while the family picnic where H.I. punches Glen was filmed at the Lost Dutchman State Park in Apache Junction, Arizona.

The baby on the movie’s international poster is Max Bemis who, years later became a founding member and the lead singer of the band Say Anything. His father designed the poster and used him as a model.

Cast

  • Nicolas Cage as Herbert “H.I.”/”Hi” McDunnough
  • Holly Hunter as Edwina “Ed” McDunnough
  • John Goodman as Gale Snoats
  • William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats
  • Frances McDormand as Dot
  • Randall ‘Tex’ Cobb as Leonard Smalls (The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse)
  • Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona Sr.
  • Sam McMurray as Glen
  • T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Arizona Jr.
  • Lynne Dumin Kitei as Florence Arizona
  • Warren Keith as Younger FBI Agent
  • Henry M. Kendrick as Older FBI Agent
  • Keith Jandacek as Whitey, Convenience Store Clerk
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