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Mood:
- BleakEmotionalGloomySuspenseful
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Plot:
- Crime Gone AwrySiblings RelationsMurderCrimesDeadlyLove and RomanceMind and SoulCouples more...
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Genres:
- CrimeDrama
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century90s
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Place:
- MinnesotaUSA
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Audience:
- Boys' Night
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Praise:
- Award WinnerCritically Acclaimed
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealistic
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Flag:
- Violent Content
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A Simple Plan, 1998
English
France, UK, Germany, USA, Japan
Profile of A Simple Plan
A Simple Plan can be described as bleak, emotional, and gloomy. The plot revolves around crime gone awry, sibling relations, and murder. The main genres are drama and crime. In approach, A Simple Plan is serious and realistic. It is located in Minnesota. It takes place in the 1990s. A Simple Plan is based on a book. The movie has received attention for being an award winner and critically acclaimed. It is well suited for a boys' night. Note that A Simple Plan involves violent content.
Summary of A Simple Plan
Like the Coen brothers' FARGO, Sam Raimi's A SIMPLE PLAN is an ice-cold neo-noir as chilling and bleak as its snow-covered Minnesota locale. When two brothers, straightlaced family man Hank (Bill Paxton) and simple-minded loser Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton)--along with Jacob's unabashed town-drunk friend Lou (Brent Briscoe)--find 4.4 million dollars inside a crashed plane, they believe they've found the financial answer to all their problems. All they have to do is keep it a secret until the plane is discovered and any investigations are completed. This proves to be easier said than done, however, when the three men (as well as Hank's surprisingly calculating wife, Sarah, played by Bridget Fonda), each with their different reasons, begin to lose trust in the others. When an FBI agent (Gary Cole) comes to town, the tension becomes explosive, peeling away layers of familial resentment and resulting in betrayal, deceit, and, ultimately, murder. Thornton's brilliantly understated and profoundly moving performance was recognized by the Academy with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor, while the taut script, by crime writer Scott B. Smith from his own novel, was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | France, UK, Germany, USA, Japan |
| Release date: | 11 December 1998 |
| Runtime: | 121 min |
Cast and Crew
as Jacob Mitchell
as Hank Mitchell
as Lou Chambers
as Sarah Mitchell
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Critics Reviews
The New York Times
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- by: Elvis Mitchell
Los Angeles Times
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- by: Jack Matthews
