Raising Arizona
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In today's episode of Critique-o-polis, Jay and Louisa discuss the 1987 cult classic Raising Arizona. Nicolas Cage plays a conflicted HI McDonnaugh torn between his primal criminal nature and the desire to be a loving, stable husband to Holly Hunter's Ed(wina), is police booking photographer, having met during HI's repeated bouts of recidivism within the Arizona penal system.
This frenetic romp through Arizona during the Reagan era is a story of the struggle of a poor couple desperately trying to begin a family while in the shadow of their wealthy peers who appear to have…
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