TMR 035 – Raising Arizona Total Movie Recall

This week on Total Movie Recall, Steve and Ryan stare into the eyes of a childless middle age and watch 1987’s Raising Arizona. Steve has a good laugh watching what he sees as a silly, light comedy and Ryan is gripped by yet another existential crisis watching a moving meditation on fatherhood, adulthood, leaving the reckless ways of youth behind, the crushing weight of responsibility, and conquering your demons. Oh to have the weightless, carefree, burdenless mirth that Steve enjoys! We should all be so lucky.

Raising Arizona (1987)

writers/directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen (The Coen Brothers)

Starring:
Nicolas Cage
Holly Hunter
Trey Wilson
John Goodman
William Forsythe
Sam McMurray
Frances McDormand
Randall "Tex" Cobb

Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.


Things discussed in the show:

King of the Hill (Greg Daniels, Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy)

Werner Herzog on Los Angeles

Steve and His Cars (short documentary by Adam Snow)

The Cabin in the Woods (Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard, Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison)

The Art of Self-Defense (Riley Stearns, Jesse Eisenberg, Alessandro Nivola, Imogen Poots)

Fight Club (David Fincher, Chuck Palahniuk (novel), Jim Uhls (screenplay), Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf)

Heathers (Michael Lehmann, Daniel Waters, Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty)

What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement, Kayvan Novak, Matt Berry, Natasia Demetriou, Taika Waititi, Mark Proksch, Nick Kroll)

The Mandalorian (Jon Favreau, Pedro Pascal, Carl Weathers, Rio Hackford, Dave Filoni, Gina Carano, Werner Herzog, Nick Nolte)

Star Wars: The Clone Wars (George Lucas, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Dave Filoni, Brian O'Connell, Ashley Eckstein)

Star Wars Rebels (Simon Kinberg, Carrie Beck, Dave Filoni, Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Steve Blum, Tiya Sircar)

Thor Ragnarok (Taika Waititi, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett)

Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi, Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson)

Eagle vs Shark (Taika Waititi, Loren Taylor, Jemaine Clement, Craig Hall)

Boy (Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu)

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi, Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter)

The Big Labowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, David Huddleston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid)

Miller's Crossing (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Gabriel Byrne, Albert Finney, John Turturro)

Barton Fink (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis)

Blood Simple (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya)

The Raising Arizona soundtrack - "Down In The Willow Garden" by Arthur Gorson and performed by Holly Hunter / "Goofing-Off Suite" by Pete Seeger / "She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain" sung by John Goodman and William Forsythe in the car.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick, Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden)

Epic Levels (Steve's D&D comedy hip hop project)

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor)

Moonstruck (Norman Jewison, John Patrick Shanley, Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis)

Con Air (Simon West, Scott Rosenberg, Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, John