The beloved 90’s gem A Simple Plan combines Sam Raimi’s masterful grasp of tension with engrossing moral themes about greed, family, and class to craft this enduring snowy thriller. A tough decision in the backwoods outside their hometown on New Year’s Eve places brothers Hank and Jacob (Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, in an Academy Award-nominated performance) in possession of a mysterious cache of over four million dollars. Desperation and delusions of grandeur push them to extraordinary lengths to cover their tracks. Idiosyncratic and emotional, this small-town crime fable was also Academy Award nominated for Scott B. Smith’s adaptation of his own novel.
“When you get the shivers watching this wintry tale unfold, it won’t be from the cold.” – Elvis Mitchell, The New York Times
“One of the year’s best films for a lot of reasons, including its ability to involve the audience almost breathlessly in a story of mounting tragedy.” – Roger Ebert
“With elegant, clockwork construction, Smith has transplanted his novel of greed, betrayal and getting what you deserve to the screen, where it is told by director Sam Raimi with a spareness befitting the whiteness of its snowed-in setting.” – Michael O’Sullivan, The Washington Post
