This delirious mix of slapstick, surrealism and sentimentality from Joel and Ethan Coen remains their warmest, most complete work next to that Oscar-winning triumph, Fargo. Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter play a couple who decide to kidnap one of a set of famous Arizona quintuplets when they discover they can't have children, only to find themselves pursued by the lone biker of the apocalypse. Cage and Hunter (in her breakthrough role) are superb, and there are winning supporting performances from John Goodman and William Forsythe as two cons on the run. However, in the end it is the dazzling invention of the Coen brothers that shines through. From the audacious pre-credits sequence the pace never slackens for a second and, prior to the technical wizardry of Jim Carrey's The Mask, this is probably the closest anyone will ever get to a live-action Tex Avery cartoon.

When a childless couple--an ex-con and an ex-cop--decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.