Film

Raising Arizona 1987

Directed by Joel Coen

  • Comedy, Crime
  • 94 min
  • PG-13

Their lawless years are behind them. Their child-rearing years lay ahead...

When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.

ComedyCrimebabyrobberysupermarketpregnancyarizonasatirefamily relationshipsabsurdamusedmelodramatic

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