The Coen Collection

Budget - $1.5m
Box Office - $3.8m

"The first day of shooting on Blood Simple was the first time I'd ever been on a feature movie set in any capacity." - Joel Coen

The Coen's feature debut was a taut thriller about a man called Julian (Dan Hedaya) who hires a private detective to confirm that his wife's cheating on him. When Julian's fears are realised, the private detective is offered a bag of cash to off the cheating couple. And that's when things get complicated. In classic Coen style, the movie features such themes as greed, lust, envy, punctuated with the occasional gruesome death.