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A
simple plan
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Movie
| Book
| Author
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& cast
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Book: A Simple Plan (1996)
Movie: A Simple Plan (1998)
Premise
movie:
"An endless white landscape of rolling hills and snow-
blanketed forests. A lonely acoustic score (by Danny
Elfman) playing in the background. A vision of rural simplicity portrayed in hushed
tones. The stillness is about to shatter. Brothers Hank (Bill
Paxton), an accountant at a small-town feed store, and Jacob (Billy
Bob Thornton), an unemployed, hygienically challenged dim bulb,
accompanied by Jacob's oafish pal Lou (Brent Briscoe), stumble
across a downed plane in the brush containing a corpse and a sack
containing millions of dollars--surely the aftermath of a drug deal,
they conclude. Greed overcomes good sense, and the three agree to
hide the money for a year and keep the secret to themselves. A
simple plan indeed, and it doesn't take long for it to go all to
hell as the lure of wealth tears at kinship and friendship, and the
ruthless machinations of impetuous partners leave a body count in
its wake. Bridget Fonda costars as Hank's wife, whose initial
hesitation gives way to cold-blooded plotting. Sam Raimi, best known
for wowing audiences with stylistic gymnastics and manic mayhem,
directs this quietly desperate thriller with chilly restraint,
finding its cold, tragic heart in the estranged relationship between
Hank and Jacob: the college boy blind to the truth of his own family
and the town loser whose tortured soul reveals a humanity lost on
his brother (a brilliant performance by Thornton). Adapted by Scott
B. Smith from his acclaimed novel."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/
6305417830/103-8633049-5460649?v=glance
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Premise
book:
"Two brothers and a friend find $4 million in the
cockpit of a downed plane. The pilot is dead. No one is looking for
the money. To keep it, all they have to do is wait.
It all sounded so simple..."
from:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/
0312952716/103-8633049-5460649?v=glance
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Author:
Scott B. Smith
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Director:
Sam Raimi
Cast:
Bill Paxton (Hank Mitchell), Bridget Fonda (Sarah Mitchell),
Billy Bob Thornton (Jacob Mitchell), Brent Briscoe (Lou Chambers),
Jack Walsh (Tom Butler), Chelcie Ross (Sheriff Carl Jenkins), Becky
Ann Baker (Nancy Chambers), Gary Cole (Neil Baxter), and others.
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