By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Becky Ann Baker | Bill Paxton | Billy Bob Thornton | Brent Briscoe | Bridget Fonda | Chelcie Ross | Gary Cole | Jack Walsh
Country: france, germany, japan, united_kingdom, united_states
Year: 1998
Running time: 121
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120324/reference
Chlotrudis says: “Billy Bob Thornton has made his mark as a versatile and complex character actor and in A SIMPLE PLAN he is at his best. A fine tuned performance as the ‘simple’ brother of a rather sinister and self-centered Bill Paxton, Thornton masterfully complexifies the ‘idiot savant’ as he weaves between a frustrating simpleton and an acute interpreter of human nature, at times almost sage-like in the unfolding of this tragedy. Once again, Thornton takes a role that may have appeared rather two-dimensional in its scripting and crafts it into a riveting and disarming performance.”