Director Sam Raimi crafts an engrossing and haunting Gothic Americana thriller based on Scott B. Smith's novel A Simple Plan.
3 men in rural Minnesota, find a bag filled with 4 million dollars in it, during the dead of winter and then things begin to get really complicated. We're pretty familiar with the ingredients of such a story but they're mixed so well here it's not a problem to see how it's properly done. With heavy doses of Hitchcock, The Coen Brothers and Shakespeare I don't see how you could really go wrong. Billy Bob Thornton turns in a beautiful performance that is both sweet as it is frightening.
4 American dreams turned nightmarish out of 5
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