A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan is a 1998 neo-noir crime thriller film about two brothers and a friend who find $4 million in a crashed airplane in the woods of rural Minnesota, and the problems that follow after they make an agreement to keep the money.
 * Directed by Sam Raimi. Written by Scott Smith, based on his novel.

Sometimes good people do evil things. Taglines With $4 million comes plenty of change. Taglines

Jacob Mitchell

 * [commenting on crows] Those things are always waiting for something to die so they can eat it. What a weird job.


 * Hank, do you ever feel evil?


 * I wish somebody else had found that money.


 * We don't have anything in common, me and him, except maybe our last name.


 * I mean, hell, Hank, I've never even kissed a girl. You know, if me becoming rich is gonna change all that, you know I'm all for it.

Sarah Mitchell

 * Nobody'd ever believe that you'd be capable of doing what you've done.

Dialogue

 * Lou Chambers: It's the American dream in a goddamn gym bag!
 * Hank Mitchell: You work for the American dream. You don't steal it.
 * Lou Chambers: Then this is even better.


 * Lou Chambers: What you gonna buy, Jakey boy?
 * Jacob Mitchell: I'm gonna buy me a truck.
 * Lou Chambers: No, fuck that. Get something classy – Trans-Am!
 * Jacob Mitchell: Yeah, in my wildest fuckin' dreams, a Trans-Am!


 * Neil Baxter: [confronted by Hank Mitchell, who's pointing a pistol] But you're not the cold-blooded type, are you Mr. Mitchell? Looks like we're both going to have an awful lot of explaining to do.
 * Hank Mitchell: Just me. [shoots him dead]

Taglines

 * Sometimes good people do evil things.


 * Four million dollars and plenty of change.


 * They've worked hard all their lives, but they still can't afford the American Dream. Stealing it is even better.

Cast

 * Bill Paxton as Hank Mitchell
 * Billy Bob Thornton as Jacob Mitchell
 * Bridget Fonda as Sarah Mitchell
 * Brent Briscoe as Lou Chambers
 * Gary Cole as Neil Baxter
 * Jack Walsh as Tom Butler
 * Chelcie Ross as Sheriff Carl Jenkins
 * Becky Ann Baker as Nancy Chambers