Regie:
Sam Raimi

Drehbuch:
Scott B. Smith

Darsteller/innen:
Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Bridget Fonda

Crime/Drama/Thriller, USA/UK/Deutschland/Frankreich/Japan
1999, 121 Minuten, Farbe

Two brothers living in the middle of snow- and windswept Nowheresville, USA, find a crashed small aircraft containing $4m. All they have to do is hide the money, sit tight, stay quiet, wait a while and their lives are transformed. It’s a simple plan, what could go wrong? The answer, as
A SIMPLE PLAN shows, is everything! Horribly, nastily, violently and tragically wrong!

Sam Raimi (“Spider-Man”), aided and abetted by his fi rst rate cast of Bill Paxton, Academy Award® Winner Billy Bob Thornton and Bridget Fonda, very quickly turns the joy of an unexpected windfall into fear of getting caught, hasty cover-up solutions and layer upon layer of suspicion, fear and paranoia. Innocent people get hurt and desperate people turn dangerous.

A SIMPLE PLAN is gripping and nail-biting stuff. Each turn of the psychological screw is guaranteed to ratchet up the tension, and that screw gets turned tighter and tighter.

Shakespearean in the depth of its tragedy, Hitchcockian in its twists and turns, Raimi’s pitch black sense of humour takes A SIMPLE PLAN into territory where the Coen Brothers fear to tread! When the American Dream turns sour, it’s a very bitter taste! Best viewed, not experienced!