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A Simple Plan (1998)

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Average Rating: 8.1/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 5

A riveting crime thriller full of emotional tension.

Average Rating: 8.4/10
Critic Reviews: 9
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 1

A riveting crime thriller full of emotional tension.

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Based on Scott B. Smith's bone-chilling 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing corpses, A Simple Plan is a taut crime thriller in the vein of Joel Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo. Set during the white winters of Minnesota, this story tells the eerie tale of Hank and Jacob Mitchell (played by Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton) who, along with a buddy, find a downed single-engine plane buried in the snowy

R, 2 hr.

Mystery & Suspense, Drama

Directed By: Sam Raimi

Written By: Scott B. Smith

In Theaters: Dec 4, 1998 Wide

On DVD: Jun 22, 1999

Paramount

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Critic Reviews for A Simple Plan

All Critics (77) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (5) | DVD (13)

powerful, if pedestrian

July 13, 2009 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com

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Bill Gibron

Filmcritic.com

It's been done before, and Raimi doesn't do it much differently or put his own stamp on it.

October 31, 2007 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

A great film, and a major leap forward in the career of Sam Raimi.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

A pre-Spiderman Sam Raimi delivers a stunningly powerful film about the consequences of greed.

October 27, 2005 Comment

Bill Clark

FromTheBalcony Source: FromTheBalcony

Tenso e tr�gico.

July 25, 2003 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

Overeager to pile so many possible, psych-lite motivations that nothing holds water or compels us very much... Terribly self-serious.

January 10, 2003 Full Review Source: Nick's Flick Picks

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Nick Davis

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Chilling and entertaining, A Simple Plan is a great screenplay. If you like of Fargo, you must see this.

January 28, 2012

Lucas Martins

Super Reviewer

Now, I know I was watching a fiction, but the movie had nothing worth discounting the numerable idiocies it had. The instability in characters' morality was the most annoying factor. Just to cite one [SPOILER ALERT]: The protagonist doesn't mind smothering an oldie (seemed normal and innocent), shooting off a couple,

January 16, 2012