An ex-con (Nicolas Cage) and an ex-cop (Holly Hunter) meet, marry and long for a child of their own. When it is discovered that H.I (Cage) is unable to have children they decide to snatch a baby. They try to keep their crime a secret, while friends, co-workers and a bounty hunter look to use the child for their own purposes.
"To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a...dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers." TIME Magazine
"Starting from a point of delirious excess, the film leaps into dark and virtually uncharted territory to soar like a comet." - Time Out
"A wacky, happy, daring, darkly comic tale of parenting outside the law." - Washington Post
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