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TRAPPED IN PARADISE: Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage) is trying to
stay straight, but at the behest of his brothers Dave (John Lovitz)
and Alvin (Dana Carvey), he agrees to help out on a bank robbery
that they assure him cannot go wrong. Dave and Alvin have recently
gotten out of jail, and the poorly guarded bank in the small town
of Paradise, Pennsylvania, provides an opportunity for easy money
they just can't pass up. The robbery proves successful, but they
don't manage to get out of town before a huge snowstorm hits;
snowed in with their loot, they are taken in by the unwitting
townspeople they've just robbed, who give new meaning to the phrase
killing with kindness!&&RAISING ARIZONA: A childless couple
unable to adopt decide that a couple who just had quintuplets won't
mind if they steal one of the babies. Thus begins the Coen
brothers' madcap romp, RAISING ARIZONA. Holly Hunter stars as Ed, a
cop who is devastated when she learns that she cannot get pregnant.
Nicolas Cage is her husband, H.I., an ex-con who wants nothing more
than to make his wife the happiest woman in the world. So if she
wants a baby, she's going to have a baby, one way or
another.&&Heading up the supporting cast of bizarre
characters are John Goodman and William Forsythe as crazy cousins
who have just busted out of prison, Sam McMurray and Frances
McDormand as Ed and H.I.'s swinging friends, and Randall Tex Cobb
as a motorcycle madman hired to rescue the baby. RAISING ARIZONA is
the Coen brothers' most consistently funny film. Carter Burwell's
score, replete with infectious yodeling, is relentless; Barry
Sonnenfeld's cinematography is beautifully wacky; and the manic
dialogue is the brothers' most quotable. The film is a treat for
the ears and the eyes, a one-of-a-kind sensation from a marvelous
pair of filmmakers.&&KISS OF DEATH: KISS OF DEATH opens
with ex-convict Jimmy Kilmartin (David Caruso) attempting to
distance himself from his shady past. His cousin, Ronny (Michael
Rapaport), shows up at his door begging for help with one more
heist, and Jimmy agrees to participate against his better judgment.
Things go sour when a detective is shot, and Jimmy is left to take
the fall. As Jimmy's hopes for a normal life with his wife (Helen
Hunt) and daughter fade, he becomes a pawn of the police in their
attempts to bring down a psychotic gangster named Little Junior
(Nicolas Cage).&&Caruso and a pumped-up, supremely menacing
Cage highlight a spectacular cast that also features Samuel L.
Jackson as the cop who becomes Jimmy's sole ally and Stanley Tucci
as a Machiavellian district attorney. Novelist Richard Price
supplies the screenplay, and director Barbet Schroeder (SINGLE
WHITE FEMALE) ensures that KISS OF DEATH, based loosely on the 1947
film of the same name, unfolds with the grooved precision of a
well-made watch while bristling at every turn with the volatile
life of a vividly imagined criminal underworld.

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