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A Simple Plan
starring: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda, Brent Briscoe, Jack Walsh
directed by: Sam Raimi

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305417804
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6305417806
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 121 minutes
Sales Rank: 15718
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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- One Man's Treasure...
A SIMPLE PLAN, Sam Raimi's film about the deadly effects of greed and suspicion, concerns three rural gents (Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Brent Briscoe) who stumble on a wrecked airplane w/ a dead pilot and four and a half million dollars inside! At first, they are ecstatic over their good fortune, but soon they learn that human nature is totally untrustworthy in the face of such a huge amount of cash. Each man is altered (revealed?) by the stress of the situation, until paranoia, rage, and murder result. This wickedly clever story is cold, dark, and humorous. Paxton and Thornton play brothers Hank and Jacob, doomed by their inability to think things through. Bridget Fonda is Hank's increasingly greedy wife. Gary Cole (Office Space, The Gift) is an alleged FBI agent who may not be on the level. A SIMPLE PLAN is anything but! Buy immediately...

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- A Portrait of Greed and Human Frailty
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 in a kinder light. Rather than mocking them for the smallness of their lives he invites us to see them as average human beings at the mercy of circumstances beyond their control. In his film the snow is more like the clean conscience the characters enjoy before greed and paranoia weave their way through it, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake.

The story is self-explanatory. Hank Mitchell(Paxton), ... Read More

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- A Gripping Tale of Greed, Betrayal, & Murder
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 it turns out that the money is marked or traceable, they will dispose of it; if it's clean, they'll split it up evenly and go their separate ways. Unfortunately, the plan doesn't turn out to be as simple as it first seemed, and soon the three men find their lives turned inside out by mistrust, paranoia, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

Based on the 1993 debut novel of author Scott Smith (who also wrote ... Read More

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- well done
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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