A Simple Plan (1999)

This is Sam Raimi's first big-studio thriller, and if fans of the cult director's Evil Dead series are poised to lambast him for selling out, then fear not. A Simple Plan is a dark, dense thriller that probes that basest of human emotions, greed, and documents the Exocet-missile effect it has when it tears through the lives of four smalltown Americans. Granted, the sheer splattertastic delirium of Raimi's previous work is absent, but it's replaced by a mature, skilful craftsmanship. He's finally decided to leave the visual pyrotechnic days of his youth behind and just tell a cracking good story.

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