The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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- Evan MayJune 16, 2025Watched “Blood Simple.” Catching up on remaining titles in the Coen Brothers canon. It’s a paradigm of the chaos-narrative that would characterize their films. Plots about butchered plotting. The potency of idiocy. Self-serving choices based on limited information direct a destructive path. But a chaotic story doesn’t imply an amoral world. The events are meaningless only in the Ecclesiastes “under the sun” sense. There is an arc to the moral universe. In the end, the abused finds her voice.
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Blood Simple was released on September 7, 1984.
Blood Simple was directed by Joel Coen.
Blood Simple has a runtime of 1h 37m.
Blood Simple was produced by Ethan Coen.
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
The key characters in Blood Simple are Ray (John Getz), Abby (Frances McDormand), Julian Marty (Dan Hedaya).
Blood Simple is rated R.
Blood Simple is a Drama, Crime, Thriller film.
Blood Simple has an audience rating of 8.8 out of 10.
Blood Simple had a budget of $1.5M.
Blood Simple has made $4.2M at the box office.