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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883904112853
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 96 minutes
Sales Rank: 5963
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1984
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A man hires a sleazy private eye to have his wife & her lover killed byt the killer decides that murdering the husband would be the perfect crime instead.Studio: Tcfhe/mgmRelease Date: 09/16/2008Starring: M Emmett Walsh Dan HedayaRun time: 96 minutesRating: R
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The debut film of director Joel Coen and his brother-producer EthanCoen, 1983's Blood Simple is grisly comic noir that marries the feverish toughness of pulp thrillers with the ghoulishness of even pulpier horror. (Imagine the novels of Jim Thompson somehow fused with the comic tabloid Weird Tales, and you get the idea.) The story concerns a Texas bar owner (Dan Hedaya) who hires a seedy private detective (M. Emmett Walsh) to follow his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her first film appearance), and then kill her and her lover (John Getz). The gumshoe turns the tables on his client, and suddenly a bad situation gets much, much worse, with some violent goings-on that are as elemental as they are shocking. (A scene in which a character who has been buried alive suddenly emerges from his own grave instantly becomes an archetypal nightmare.) Shot by Barry Sonnenfeld before he became an A-list director in Hollywood, Blood Simple established the hyperreal look and feel of the Coens' productions (undoubtedly inspired a bit by filmmaker Sam Raimi, whose The Evil Dead had just been coedited by Joel). Sections of the film have proved to be an endurance test for art-house movie fans, particularly an extended climax that involves one shock after another but ends with a laugh at the absurdity of criminal ambition. This is definitely one of the triumphs of the 1980s and the American independent film scene in general. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  - The first masterpiece by the Coen brothers
This early 1980s film started the Coen brothers journey into one of the best filmmaking teams ever.
I have been wanting to see this movie for a long time and was happy I landed on this copy.While it is a good transfer to DVD, some of the others who commented on this said many scenes were deleted from the original.Since it was my first time to view this, I loved it and was totally impressed, now I want to see the original in its entirety.
The Coen brothers always add ... Read More
Rating:  - It all began with this little movie from the Brothers Coen
Geniuses have to begin somewhere, and Blood Simple happens to be the first film by Joel and Ethan Coen, the team that later produced "Raising Arizona", "Fargo" and "No Country For Old Men".
Unknown and without much in the way of budget, the Coens give us the best film noir since movies began being made in color.The film is bloody, indeed, but not for a moment simple.
Dan Hedaya plays Julian Marty, a bar owner who's doing pretty good for himself, except that his wife, played ... Read More
Rating: - What a Treat!
The Coens pack a lot of goin's-on into this clever murder for hire/love story/comedy/thriller that is both brutal and darkly humorous at the same time. Quirky and riveting. One of their best.
Rating: - The electrifying first film from the Coen's
Before No Country For Old Men, before The Big Lebowski, and before Fargo; Joel and Ethan Coen crafted this homage to the crime-noir.Blood Simple stars Dan Hedaya as a sleezy bar owner who plots to have his cheating wife (Frances McDormand in her screen debut) and his bartender (John Getz) with whom she is having an affair murdered.Things don't quite go as planned however when the hitman he hires (M. Emmet Walsh) turns the tables, and things begin to spiral out of control for everyone involved.Simply ... Read More
Rating: - There's nothing simple about this bloodbath...
Without doubt one of the Coen's darkest films, `Blood Simple' is also one of their best.Slow, brooding and manipulative, `Blood Simple' unfolds like one of the most unsettling horror movies of our generation, and it does so with such distinguished fire we can't help but be stirred inside.This is one of those movies that are so mesmerizing that one doesn't initially notice the haunting aspects of the plot until it is too late and we are sucked deep inside.
The film follows Ray and Abby, two ... Read More
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