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| Year: | 1987 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Coen brothers |
| Genre: | Action comedy |
| Starring: | Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093822/ |
| Tagline: | A comedy beyond belief. |
| Favourite line: | "You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop." |
Oddball comedy from the Coen brothers which is very highly rated but, I have to say, disappointed me a little.
Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter play an ex-con and an ex-cop, who wind up married. Problem is, Hunter's character cannot conceive a child. They hatch a plan to kidnap a wealthy business man's baby, one of a quintuplet clutch of five, and claim it as their own.
Thus begins a procession of farcical, outrageous situations as the protaganists each vie for ownership of the sprog.
My gripe with it is the over-reliance on slapstick and 'zaniness', whereas the Coen's are usually a little more subtle than that.
Good performances all round though, and one of the best character names ever to grace a movie, in the form of bounty hunter The Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse.
Entertaining if not vital viewing.
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