Every Coen Brothers Movie Ranked Worst To Best

The Brothers' second film, Raising Arizona couldn't be further removed from their debut effort - but that's exactly what makes it work so well when looking at their work as a whole. Whilst Blood Simple is cold, dark and bleak, Raising Arizona is a simply divine comedy bursting with originality, wholesomeness and solid humour.

The film follows a criminal called H.I. (Nicolas Cage) who falls in love and marries a police officer (Holly Hunter) and attempts to turn his life around. Things (of course) take a turn for the worst, as the couple find themselves drawn to a life of crime and at one point kidnap a baby in response to their own inability to have kids.

With great comedic work from Cage, Hunter and the always dependable John Goodman, Raising Arizona is mad-cap fun front-to-back, and in spite of some moments which feel a touch overstretched, it's a great little film that still holds up in entertainment value to this day.