A Simple Plan
by Sam Raimi
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Actor: Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe, Bridget Fonda, Jack WalshDirector: Sam Raimi
Brand: THORNTON,BILLY BOB
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-06-22
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of A Simple Plan
Movie Review: Good cast; unbelievable story
Summary: 2 Stars
I got this movie because of the cast. The first ten minutes were promising, setting up an interesting moral dilemma involving four characters of different personalities. Everyone has to ask himself what he'd do if he'd find a gym bag of four million dollars in hundreds. Most people, I think (hope) would follow the immediate impulse of Hank, the square-jawed, clean cut guy with a good job, a college degree, a nice house and pretty pregant wife. He said obviously that that they had to turn it in, because it would be a crime not to and if they kept it that they'd be caught and sent to jail. Good thinking, Hank.
Watching him cave in, after a discussion of about five minutes wasn't very convincing but I kept with him as he went home and told his wife, Sarah, about the find. By this time, though, he doesn't seem to have much moral compunction about keeping the money, but displays it on the dining room table with a huge grin on his face. Hmmm
I kept watching until the incident when Hank kills the old farmer. His dim-wit brother Jacob, has hit the man and they believe he's dead. In the process of moving the body, the farmer comes to life. Rather than being happy that the fellow isn't dead, Hank finishes him off. This was where I decided to shut the film off. There is nothing in the film that prepares you for the sudden, drastic change in Hank's behavior. It was too horrible and although the acting was first rate and the style of the direction was engaging, I chose to opt out. I could tell that things were destined to go from very bad to even worse and I didn't care to stick along for the depressing ride.
I don't know if the book was more successful in making this believable. For me, and for a number of other reviewers, the dramatic change of Hank's behavior is not believable. Does one turn from a solid citizen, trusted employee and loving husband to murderer overnight with no previous sign of a crack in his moral fiber? This may work as a morality tale, but not as a real human drama.
Summary of A Simple Plan
The American dream in a gym bag. That's how three men size up what they've found in the snowy Minnesota woods.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 12-MAR-2002
Media Type: DVD
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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