A Simple Plan

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Joe F @TwinkletoesMcGee 15h There is not one misstep in the entire film. When people talk about their favorite noir or thriller films, this isn’t a Top 10 pick… this is a Top 3. One of my all time favorites. See more RichardAB T @PoorDearRichard Apr 4 This story becomes a slow, suffocating weight—the kind that makes you hope things will turn out, even as you sense it’s all a bad idea. It’s tragic, overwhelming at times, and built on the uncomfortable truth that trust can crumble the moment pressure hits. The acting is completely believable across the board. Billy Bob Thornton is great, but Bill Paxton carries the film with a performance that feels jittery, anxious, and painfully real. He plays the unraveling with such honesty that every moment feels heavier. Their dynamic makes each moment more unsettling, making this film a solid, tense, unraveling ride. See more Jeffrey P @vanillavoodoo1 Mar 21 All these years later and this still remains a hidden gem, one that I have seen probably half-a-dozen times, No a.i., real actors, no c.g.i., real filmmaking, real script, no guesswork needed to decipher the deeper meaning, and it works! Who woulda thunk it!? And I think about what it would have been like seeing this on the big screen, and I honestly think I’d have enjoyed it more than most of the films I’ve seen over the last few years. See more Dean S. @DeanDFW Mar 8 Very entertaining, fun silly twists you see coming a mile away but still enjoy. See more Ted B. @Movieaddicted Mar 1 4.5 stars; To me, this easily could have been a Coen Brothers film. The characters certainly reminded me of their genre. It was somewhat similar to "Fargo" in that sense, which was made two years earlier and achieved the Academy Award for Best Picture of the Year. Although Sam Raimi gives this film his own personal spin and style, which took a little of the quirkiness out of the characters. It had to be one of his best efforts. I loved this film. Billy Bob Thornton was outstanding in this early career performance. His character vacillated between a country bumpkin and a thoughtful person. I loved the marital relationship portrayed by Bill Paxton and Bridget Fonda's characters, and how greed changed their relationship from a couple who had everything to one that schemed against family and friends. See more Matthew D @OceanSage Mar 1 A bad idea goes wrong in a most fantastic way in Sam Raimi’s frosty crime drama A Simple Plan. Director Sam Raimi’s neo-noir crime drama A Simple Plan (1998) is a gripping film that is shadowy. It’s a neat testament to the power of greed ruining people. Writer Scott B. Smith came up with three idiots who find a bag of lost money in a crashed plane and decide to keep it. It’s darkly funny because they easily could have split the money fairly in three ways, then gone their separate ways. Instead, everything goes wrong. Bill Paxton is great as the family man Hank Mitchell. You see a moral man devolve into a seedy criminal, desperate to cover his tracks by any means. Bridget Fonda is fantastic as Hank’s devoted wife Sarah Mitchell. She’s basically Lady Macbeth in this film. Billy Bob Thornton is excellent as the poor, unemployed moron Jacob Mitchell, whose allegiances are always in question. In all, Sam Raimi shows that it’s no fun to be impoverished, desiring money at any cost. See more Read all reviews

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