H.I. McDunnough (pronounced McDunnuh (Nicolas Cage)) is an incorrigible recidivist criminal. His specialty is unsuccessfully robbing convenience stores. That is until he meets Ed (short for Edwina (Holly Hunter)), the cop who repeatedly takes his mug shot. The two of them marry and are a happy couple until Ed finds out she can't conceive a child. That sends her into a tailspin. The two of them have a lightbulb moment when they are watching T.V. and see that a local business owner had quintuplets with the help of fertility pills.
What was their lightbulb moment? Why not take one of those five kids off their hands, surely the mother and father won't miss one. They already have too many as it is. So they proceeded to steal little Nathan Arizona Jr. hence the title: Raising Arizona.
These two extremely flawed characters are a barrel of laughs. Who knew that a woman's biological clock could be so strong? The movie was funny before Nathan Jr. entered the scene and it only got funnier once the desperate couple kidnaped him.
What was their lightbulb moment? Why not take one of those five kids off their hands, surely the mother and father won't miss one. They already have too many as it is. So they proceeded to steal little Nathan Arizona Jr. hence the title: Raising Arizona.
These two extremely flawed characters are a barrel of laughs. Who knew that a woman's biological clock could be so strong? The movie was funny before Nathan Jr. entered the scene and it only got funnier once the desperate couple kidnaped him.