Simple Plan DVD

A Simple Plan
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 taught 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 woods. Inside it is a decaying pilot and a bag carrying four million dollars in one-hundred-dollar bills. The men decide to hide the money until spring when the snow is melted and the plane is found. If no one notices the missing money at that time, they will split it and live a wealthy new life. A simple plan, right? Wrong. Much like Humphrey Bogart's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, things can only get worse, as distrust and greed creep into the minds of the principles. They find it difficult to decide which one gets to hold the money -- and even more impossible to keep from dipping into the stash until spring. And so on. It also becomes increasingly tough to keep a secret of this magnitude. And if all this doesn't get moviegoers' brains working, it seems there are suspicious characters in town who just may be able to link them to the plane, forcing the more dangerous and bloody question of what to do with those people and how to cover their tracks. ~ Chris Gore, All Movie Guide

Cast Bill Paxton as Hank Billy Bob Thornton as Jacob Brent Briscoe as Lou Bridget Fonda as Sarah Jack Walsh as Tom Butler Chelcie Ross as Carl Becky Ann Baker as Nancy Gary Cole as Baxter

Crew James F. Truesdale - Art Director Michael Polaire - Co-producer Julie Weiss - Costume Designer Newt Arnold - First Assistant Director Sam Raimi - Director Doug Lefler - Second Unit Director Eric L. Beason - Editor Arthur Coburn - Editor Mark Gordon - Executive Producer Gary Levinsohn - Executive Producer Danny Elfman - Composer (Music Score) Patrizia Von Brandenstein - Production Designer Alar Kivilo - Cinematographer James Jacks - Producer Adam Schroeder - Producer Rando Schmook - Set Designer Hilton Rosemarin - Set Designer Ed Novick - Sound/Sound Designer John D. Milinac - Special Effects Supervisor Scott B. Smith - Screenwriter Paul Ryan - Second Unit Director Of Photography Scott B. Smith - Book Author

A Simple Plan
A straightforward, even restrained, neo- oir hriller may have been the last thing expected from flamboyant horror maestro Sam Raimi, but A Simple Plan stylistically stayed close to its name. Scripted by Scott B. Smith from his bestselling novel, Raimi quietly lets the tension build as brothers Hank and Jacob (Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton), Paxton's wife (Bridget Fonda), and Thornton's friend Lou (Brent Briscoe) attempt to wait out the snowy rural winter before absconding with millions of dollars found in a plane wreck. The deep currents of fraternal and class resentment laid bare by the faltering plan, however, soon corrupt the pristine white landscapes and the deceptively cozy interior of Paxton's home. As acted with comparable delicacy by Paxton and especially Thornton as the less fortunate sibling, the human weaknesses that foil the plot become all the more cruelly, and believably, intense. Praised as a strong piece of taut, well-mounted story-telling, A Simple Plan proved that Raimi could indeed do more than let the viscera fly, and earned Oscar nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor for Thornton. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

Billy Bob Thornton: Academy, Best Supporting Actor (nominated) Billy Bob Thornton: Broadcast Film Critics Association, Best Supporting Actor (winner) Billy Bob Thornton: L.A. Film Critics Association, Best Supporting Actor (winner) Billy Bob Thornton: Screen Actors Guild, Best Supporting Actor (nominated) Billy Bob Thornton: Toronto Film Critics Association, Best Actor - Runner-up (winner) Scott B. Smith: Academy, Best Adapted Screenplay (nominated) Scott B. Smith: Broadcast Film Critics Association, Best Adapted Screenplay (winner) Scott B. Smith: National Board of Review, Best Screenplay (winner)

National Board of Review, Best Picture (nominated)

General Specifications: Language Options: English Subtitle Options: Sound Processing: DD5.1: Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel DS: Dolby Surround (4.0) Additional Features: cc Widescreen version enhanced for 16x9 Dolby Digital: English 5.1 Surround; English Dolby Surround Interactive menus Scene selection Theatrical trailer DVD Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1: Theatre Wide-Screen MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 1 DVD Sides: 1 DVD DVD Region Code: 1 Content Length: 121 min Part of Series: Paramount Widescreen Collection   DVD Chapters: Side #1 -- 1. A Happy Man [:17] 2. The Fox [:14] 3. The Airplane [4:21] 4. Observe and Learn [2:32] 5. The Farm [5:40] 6. Money Troubles [9:55] 7. Taking Sides [4:33] 8. The Deal [5:20] 9. Live and Let Live [5:51] 10. Rest in Peace [1:02] 11. A Normal Life [3:11] 12. Agen Baxter [6:35] 13. Cost of Happiness [4:28] 14. A Matter of Time [6:45]