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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Why this pick
Like A Simple Plan, it turns an apparently manageable crime into a tightening web of bad decisions, family pressure, and grimly believable consequences.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1998 2h 1m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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One False Move
Why this pick
Its unvarnished small-town America, accumulating dread, and flawed people trapped by violence echo the moral chill and escalating tension of A Simple Plan.
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Blood Simple
Why this pick
A stark rural noir where greed, suspicion, and crossed intentions make every attempted solution worse; it shares A Simple Plan's cruelly logical downward spiral.
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Why this pick
This foundational greed thriller follows friendship eroding under the weight of found wealth, with the same unsentimental interest in how money exposes character.
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The Ice Harvest
Why this pick
A wintry Midwestern crime story with a deadpan surface and mounting paranoia, built around criminals discovering that a supposedly simple score has hidden costs.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Hank Mitchell and his pregnant wife Sarah live in rural Minnesota. One of the town's few college graduates, Hank works in a feed mill, while his wife is a librarian. When Hank, his older, socially challenged brother Jacob and Jacob's friend Lou Chambers chase a fox into the woods, they stumble upon a crashed airplane. Hank decides to look inside the plane where he discovers a dead pilot and a bag containing $4.4 million in $100 bills. He suggests turning the money in but is persuaded not to by Jacob and Lou. Hank then proposes that he keep the money safe at his house until the end of winter. Sheriff Carl Jenkins drives by the area and notices the three men after they hide the money in Jacob's pick-up truck. Jacob mentions hearing a plane in the area to avoid suspicion. After Carl leaves, the three men decide to keep the money a secret, but Hank breaks the pact when he reveals the discovery to Sarah.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Tom Carey
Dwight Stevanson
Jack Walsh
Tom Butler
John Paxton
Mr. Schmitt
Bill Paxton
Hank Mitchell
Bridget Fonda
Sarah Mitchell
Billy Bob Thornton
Jacob Mitchell
Brent Briscoe
Lou Chambers
Chelcie Ross
Carl Jenkins