Arizona

Name: Arizona
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Released: August 24, 2018
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Audrey Walters, Cullen Moss, Danny McBride, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Gillies

2018

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RLJ Entertainment | Release Date: August 24, 2018 | TV-MA

Starring: Audrey Walters, Cullen Moss, Danny McBride, David Alan Grier, Elizabeth Gillies, Jade Kammerman, Kaitlin Olson, Kevin Wiggins, Lolli Sorenson, Luke Wilson, Rosemarie DeWitt, Seth Rogen, Travis Hammer

Summary: Cassie (Rosemarie DeWitt) is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together. Things go from bad to worse when a disgruntled client, Sonny (Danny McBride), confronts Cassie’s boss and accidentally kills him. Having witnessed the crime, Sonny kidnaps Cassie to keep her quiet until he figures out what to do. But he makesCassie (Rosemarie DeWitt) is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together. Things go from bad to worse when a disgruntled client, Sonny (Danny McBride), confronts Cassie’s boss and accidentally kills him. Having witnessed the crime, Sonny kidnaps Cassie to keep her quiet until he figures out what to do. But he makes one outrageously bad – and bloody – decision after another, until things completely spiral out of control. … Expand

Director: Jonathan Watson

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy

Rating: TV-MA

Runtime: 85 min

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Andrew Crump

Aug 31, 2018

Arizona bathes its absurdist satire in the bleakest humor and takes a sober glance at the consequences of America’s worst modern economic calamity. Read full review

Noel Murray

Aug 23, 2018

Danny McBride is at his funniest and scariest in Arizona, a darkly comic film noir that works well as both a violent thriller and as a ruthless satire of over-extended American dreamers. Read full review

The Playlist Jordan Ruimy

Aug 23, 2018

The potential of this movie’s premise might have been squandered by cliches, but McBride and DeWitt keep it watchable. Read full review

The Film Stage Dan Mecca

Despite its brief runtime, the film runs out of steam well before its climax. Read full review

Amy Nicholson

Aug 23, 2018

As a debut film, Arizona shows that Watson could become a director with interesting ideas, but this housing crisis horror comedy is definitely just a rental. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Simon Abrams

Aug 24, 2018

Arizona might have worked better as a smart-ass social commentary if its tsk-tsking of consumerist myopia wasn't so consistently on the nose and its plot didn't swiftly devolve into slasher movie cliches. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

Aug 23, 2018

As the movie wears on, one suspects that the writer Luke Del Tredici and the director Jonathan Watson aren’t crafting an indictment of toxic masculinity, but an invitation to take some sadistic enjoyment in it, without consequences. Read full review

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maaike

Aug 24, 2018

Wow this movie was WILD! It is a really intense movie to watch, but also funny. It's really short but that makes it even a faster paced movie. Enjoyed it a lot.

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malcolmsscs

Aug 25, 2018

Dark, ironic and funny comedy/thriller about a man losing it after the housing crisis and the bad decisions he makes. Entertaining, fast story line that never gets boring or too predictable. 5/5 stars.

4 of 4 users found this helpful40

3ebfan511

Jan 24, 2020

This film was a bit of a mess. There are a number of great comedic actors, and a writer and director with comedic experience, but..for some reason they tried to make the film "scary", so the tone was just off, through-out the whole film. It wasn't really that funny, thus wasting theThis film was a bit of a mess. There are a number of great comedic actors, and a writer and director with comedic experience, but..for some reason they tried to make the film "scary", so the tone was just off, through-out the whole film. It wasn't really that funny, thus wasting the comedic actors talents, and...was not really that scary as..it is not the right group of actors for "scary" material. This movie should have been either a more improvised silly comedy (if they couldn't write enough jokes..) or...a completely different casted more serious film. It did not work trying to do both, and ends up being "nothing" essentially. I got bored after about 15 minutes, and it didn't seem to get much better as I let it play despite barely being able to watch it.… Expand

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imthenoob

Jun 20, 2020

The cast does a phenomenal job and really lifts this movie above and beyond what it would have been otherwise. It kind of falls apart in the final 1/3 of the movie and the pacing comes to a grinding halt as well. I wish it was 10 minutes shorter to kind of quicken things up because I feelThe cast does a phenomenal job and really lifts this movie above and beyond what it would have been otherwise. It kind of falls apart in the final 1/3 of the movie and the pacing comes to a grinding halt as well. I wish it was 10 minutes shorter to kind of quicken things up because I feel like the longer the movie goes on, The staler it becomes.… Expand

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WhisperingGhost

Feb 24, 2020

I love DB but this movie made me sad. Too much violence for me. Huge fan of EB&D but this just wasn’t my bag.

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ScienceAdvisor

Aug 24, 2018

A failed comedy that wanted far better material than the writer (Luke Del Tredici) could manage, or that the director (Jonathan Watson) could inject. The end result is amateurish at best, and downright clumsy at worst.

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