Other Titles • Raising Arizona (1987) • Arizona Junior (1987)
Trivia from Raising Arizona (1987)
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Fifteen babies were used during the shooting of the film.
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Associate producer Deborah Reinisch also served as the second assistant director.
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Filmed in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe, Arizona.
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Theatrical release: March 6, 1987 (New York City); March 20, 1987 (Los Angeles).
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Randall "Tex" Cobb was formerly a professional boxer.
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John Goodman also appears in the Coen brothers' BARTON FINK, THE BIG LEBOWSKI, and O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, and he voices the newsreel announcer in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY.
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Frances McDormand, who is married to Joel Coen, also appears (uncredited) in MILLER'S CROSSING and stars in FARGO and BLOOD SIMPLE.
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M. Emmet Walsh, who also appears in BLOOD SIMPLE, makes a cameo as a talkative factory worker.
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H.I. has a Woody Woodpecker tattoo on his arm; Leonard Smalls sports the same tattoo, as well as one that announces, "Mama didn't love me."
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One of the main characters in OF MICE AND MEN is named Lennie Small, which is awful close to Leonard Smalls, the "warthog from hell."
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When H.I. Is working in the factory, he is wearing a Hudsucker Industries shirt--that company was the main company in THE HUDSUCKER PROXY.
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The letters OPE and POE in the gas station bathroom where Gale and Evelle are cleaning up are an homage to the letters that Jack D. Ripper is obsessed with in DR. STRANGELOVE.
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