Raising Arizona
“Their lawless years are behind them. Their child-rearing years lay ahead...”
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.
Genres
Comedy, Crime
Studio
Circle Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Raising Arizona performed
Budget
$6.0M
Worldwide Gross
$29.2M
Gross Profit
$23.2M
Return
4.9× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$4M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
Where to Watch
Cast
H.I.
Nicolas Cage
H.I.
Ed
Holly Hunter
Ed
Nathan Arizona, Sr.
Trey Wilson
Nathan Arizona, Sr.
Gale
John Goodman
Gale
Evelle
William Forsythe
Evelle
Glen
Sam McMurray
Glen
Dot
Frances McDormand
Dot
Leonard Smalls
Randall 'Tex' Cobb
Leonard Smalls
Nathan Junior
T.J. Kuhn
Nathan Junior
Florence Arizona
Lynne Kitei
Florence Arizona
Prison Counselor
Peter Benedek
Prison Counselor
Nice Old Grocery Man
Charles 'Lew' Smith
Nice Old Grocery Man
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