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In an unnamed Texas town, a sleazy bar owner Julian Marty suspects his wife, Abby (Frances McDormand), of being unfaithful. Abby gets one of the bartenders, Ray, to give her a ride out of town to Houston.
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On the surface, the movie is very simple: Julian Marty (impeccably played by Dan Hedaya) hires private investigator Loren Visser (Emmet Waslh gives the finest performance in the movie as an unlikely and violent villain) to find out with his wife, Abby (the brilliant Frances McDormand in one of her earliest performances) is sleeping with; and ...
Blood Simple: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife.
United States. October 12, 1984 (New York Film Festival) United States. January 1985 (Sundance Film Festival) 50 more. All.
Blood Simple. When Blood Simple was first released, two quotes appeared over black, before the opening credits. One was from Dashiell Hammet explaining what "blood simple" meant and the second was from Alfred Hitchcock about how difficult it really would be to kill a man.
Blood Simple: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh. The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife.
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Abby : Except when he doesn't say things, they're usually nasty. When you don't, they're usually nice. Abby : He took me to a psychiatrist one time, to calm me down. The psychiatrist said I was the healthiest person he'd ever talked to, so Marty fired him.
The original video version of Blood Simple couldn't get the rights to use The Four Tops song "It's the Same Old Song" (which essentially became the theme for the film). It was instead replaced with the Neil Diamond cover song of "I'm a Believer."
