Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona is a quirky, offbeat, and humorous 1987 Coen Brothers film starring Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, and Randall Cobb are also featured. Not a blockbuster at the time of its release, it has since achieved the status of a cult film. Typical Coen Brothers fare, the movie is replete with pseudo-symbolism, visual gags, and sardonic dialogue.

Quotes

• H.I.:The doctor explained that her insides were a rocky place, where my seed could find no purchase.
• Dot: You take that diaper off your head; you put it back on to your sister.
• Smalls: Name's Smalls. Leonard Smalls. My friends call me Lenny...only I ain't got no friends.
• Smalls: You wanna find an outlaw, you call an outlaw; you wanna find a Dunkin' Donuts, call a cop.
• Evelle: Mighty good cereal flakes, Mrs. McDonough.
• Gale: So many social engagements, so little time.
• Gale: Ma'am, we sure never meant to influence anybody. Evelle: And if we did, we're sorry.
• From H.I.'s dream: And it seemed real. It seemed like us. And it seemed like well ... our home . . . If not Arizona, then a land, not too far away, where all parents are strong and wise and capable, and all children are happy and beloved.... I dunno, maybe it was Utah.
• Hayseed in the Pickup: Son, you got a panty on your head.

BUD: So we was doin' paramedical work in affiliation

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with the state highway system-not actually practicin',

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y'understand-and me and Bill's patrollin' down Nine

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Mile-

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HI: Bill Roberts?

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BUD (barking): No, not that motherscratcher! Bill

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Parker! Anyway, we're approachin' the wreck, and

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there's a spherical object a-restin' on the highway

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... And it don't look like a piece a the car.

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