Still image from the 1984 film Blood Simple.

Blood Simple

Directed by Joel Coen

A Texas bar owner hires a private eye to kill his cheating wife and her boyfriend.

1984 1h 35m Suspense/Mystery TV-MA

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CAST
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Joel Coen, Director
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Joel Coen
Director

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John Getz, Ray
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John Getz
Ray

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Frances Mcdormand, Abby
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Frances Mcdormand
Abby

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Dan Hedaya, Julian Marty
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Dan Hedaya
Julian Marty

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Van Brooks,
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Van Brooks

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Loren Bivens,
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Loren Bivens

FULL SYNOPSIS

A classic modern noir on Blu-ray, Joel and Ethan Coen's debut feature "Blood Simple" (1984) tells the story of the owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar who discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered. Dan Hedaya, Frances McDormand, John Getz and M. Emmett Walsh star in the low-budget masterpiece that is a must-see.


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ARTICLES
Blood Simple hit the screens in 1984 in a big way that insured the Coen Brothers would never have to beg for money again. They could write their own tickets, starting with their first movie out of the gate. Of course, a lot of hard work went into getting that movie made in the first place, including making a trailer for a movie that didn't yet exist. The two Coen brothers, Ethan and Joel, put together a trailer for a movie idea they had in 1982. It involved murder and blackmail and deception but since they weren't sure who would be in it, what it would look like, or how it would be cut, they made the trailer as simple as possible. They showed a man dragging a shovel alongside a car stopped in the middle of the road, back towards another man he was going to kill. There was a shot of backlit gun holes in a wall and, well, that's about it. But it was enough to get them financing and some high quality actors to star, including Dan Hedaya and M. Emmet Walsh, two of the best character actors in the business. For other parts, they weren't above using significant others and that's where things fell into place like no one expected. It just so happens that Joel Coen's wife, Frances McDormand, was not only an actress but, as it turns out, one of the best actresses to emerge in the eighties. McDormand made her film debut in Blood Simple and the rest, as they say, is history. The Coen Brothers and their cinematographer, Barry Sonnenfeld, set out to make Blood Simple with almost ...

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