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Death Cab for Cutie’s Nick Harmer on Raising Arizona (1987, directed by Joel Coen)

uch like your favorite album, where so much of it is your mood and circumstantially dependent on where you’re at and what you want to experience. Sometimes you want a movie to make you think, and sometimes you want pure entertainment.by the Coen brothers. I loved it when it came out. I thought it was hilarious. And now that I am a parent, it is absolutely, to me, the most spot on movie about parenting in so many ways—the madness and the chaos of it. It’s got so many emotional layers on top of just being two of the finest comedic performances between Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter. I can’t say enough about that movie right now, mainly because it took a change in my own life—becoming a parent—to suddenly recognize even more of the nuance and feel the sting of it.

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