Raising Arizona
■ Basic Data
| Item | Content |
|---|---|
| Year | 1987 |
| Country | United States |
| Director | Joel Coen |
| Cast | Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Frances McDormand |
| Genre | Crime comedy |
■ Title Language Table
| Language | Text | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| English | Raising Arizona | – |
| Español | Arizona Baby | Arizona Baby |
| Français | Arizona Junior | Arizona Junior |
| Deutsch | Arizona Junior | Arizona Junior |
| Português | Arizona Nunca Mais | Arizona Nunca Mais |
| Italiano | Arizona Junior | Arizona Junior |
| Русский | Воспитание Аризоны | Vospitaniye Arizony |
| 中文（简体） | 抚养亚利桑那 | – |
| 中文（繁體） | 撫養亞利桑那 | – |
| 한국어 | 아리조나 유괴사건 | Arijona yugoegageon |
| ไทย | Raising Arizona | – |
| Tiếng Việt | Raising Arizona | – |
| Bahasa Indonesia | Raising Arizona | – |
| 日本語 | 赤ちゃん泥棒 | あかちゃんどろぼう |
■ One-Line Definition
👉 A work that depicts a structure in which parental longing and criminal shortcut collide within an impossible fantasy of instant family
■ Synopsis
An ex-convict and a police officer kidnap one infant from a wealthy family’s quintuplets and turn their desire for parenthood into escalating disorder.
■ RECIPE Tags
#InstantFamily #ParentalLonging #CriminalFantasy #DomesticImprovisation #MoralAbsurdity
■ Primary Axis
- Entry: Desire for family without lawful path
Reason: The couple’s longing for a child becomes detached from legal, biological, and social limits.
Related Film: Baby Boom - Middle: Crime as domestic construction
Reason: The kidnapping is treated not as profit-seeking crime but as a distorted attempt to build a household.
Related Film: Paper Moon - Core: Family fantasy against moral reality
Reason: The imagined home can only survive by confronting the stolen child’s irreducible belonging to another world.
Related Film: The Kid
■ Secondary Axes
- Outlaw immaturity: Adult life is pursued through childish, impulsive, and structurally unstable choices.
Related Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Dream of redemption: The ending turns crime, guilt, and longing toward a fragile vision of possible moral renewal.
Related Film: The Fisher King
■ Person
- Director: Joel Coen
- Cast: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Frances McDormand
■ Structural Tags
#InstantFamilyStructure #CrimeDomesticity #RedemptionFantasy
■ Attribute Tags
#AmericanFilm #CrimeComedy #CoenBrothers
