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 ...more

A straightforward, even restrained, neo-noir thriller 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 ...more