Blood Simple

Name: Blood Simple
Director: Joel Coen
Released: 1984
Duration: 1 h 36 min
Cast: Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, John Getz, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams

by Joel Coen1h381984United States

Recommended byJacques Audiard, Cristian Mungiu, Diane Kurys

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A rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.

Cast and crew

Credits
- Distributor : Studiocanal
- Production Compagny : River Road Productions
- Scenario : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Producer : Ethan Coen
- Photo Director : Barry Sonnenfeld
- Sound Recorder : Lee Orloff
- Costume Design : Sara Medina-Pape
- Set Decoration : Nancy Griffith
- Editing : Roderick Jaynes, Don Wiegmann
- Original Music : Carter Burwell
- Executive Producer : Daniel F. Bacaner
- Director : Joel Coen
Technical details
- Printed format : 35 mm
- Sound mix : Stéréo 2.0
- Year of production : 1984
- French release date : 8 juin 1985
- Category : Feature film
- Color : Colors
- Language : English

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Blood Simple

The film"s page

Credits

Technical details

Other films

By the same director

Fargo

Barton Fink

The Big Lebowski

From the same year

The Official Story

Full Moon in Paris

Places in the Heart

With the same cast

Frances McDormand

Fargo

Raising Arizona

Almost Famous

Dan Hedaya

Mulholland Drive

John Getz

The Fly

M. Emmet Walsh

Ordinary People

Straight Time

This film is recommended by

Jacques Audiard

Cristian Mungiu

Diane Kurys

This film is part of the Cinematographic movement

"American Independent Cinema 1978-1990"