A Simple Plan is a 1998 drama film directed by Sam Raimi, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay of the movie. It was shot in Delano, Minnesota; Ashland, Wisconsin; and Saxon, Wisconsin. Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Scott B. Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.
Several prominent critics praised the film for its comp...
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A Simple Plan is a 1998 drama film directed by Sam Raimi, based on the novel of the same name by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay of the movie. It was shot in Delano, Minnesota; Ashland, Wisconsin; and Saxon, Wisconsin. Billy Bob Thornton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Scott B. Smith was nominated for the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.
Several prominent critics praised the film for its complexity and taut suspense (4 stars from Roger Ebert and Critic's Choice from The New York Times).
Hank Mitchell (Bill Paxton) and his pregnant wife, Sarah (Bridget Fonda), live a quiet life in the rural Minnesota town Hank grew up in. Hank, one of the town's few residents to be graduated from college, is an accountant and assistant manager of a feed mill, and his wife is a librarian. The couple appear to be solidly middle-class, but Sarah complains that they are "poor." Still, their circumstances are much above those of the film's other two...
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