Raising Arizona

Raising Arizona. 1987 20th Century Fox.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, William Forsythe, John Goodman, Frances McDormand, Randall "Tex" Cobb
Director: Joel & Ethan Coen
Available at Amazon as either a single DVD, or as a two-fer with Fargo.

An early Coen Brothers effort, and it's really funny.

Herbert "H.I." or "Hi" McDunnough (Cage) is a petty criminal from Arizona who meets a policewoman named Edwina (Hunter), better known as "Ed", during his many trips to the police station she works in. Ed is recently dumped, and after Hi's latest release from the big house, he proposes to her. They get married, live in a trailer on the outskirts of Tempe, and Hi gets a job at a machine shop. Ed discovers she's infertile, and the couple is not allowed to adopted thanks to Hi's criminal record. One night while watching television, Ed and Hi see a news report about the "Arizona Quints", sons of the local celebrity furniture salesman Nathan Arizona. They decide to kidnap one of the babies, Nathan Junior.

Things predictably go haywire, with Nathan Junior being pursued not only by two of Hi's prison buddies, Gale and Evelle Snoats (Goodman & Forsythe), but by a biker-slash-bounty hunter named Leonard Smalls (Cobb) who intends not to return Nathan to the Arizona family, but instead, plans to sell him on the black market, which is what happened to him as a baby. In addition, Hi's boss Glen (Sam McMurray) tries to bully him into surrendering the kid to him and his wife, or he will report him and Ed to the police. Also, Hi and Ed's relationship deteriorates, and they come close to splitting up, but they reconcile after an unlikely soul advises them that things will eventually improve for them like they had done for him.

Highly recommended.