Blood Simple

Blood Simple

Directed by: Joel Coen

Friday, July 24 - Saturday, July 25, 2009

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Joel and Ethan Coen’s directorial debut. Abby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband, Marty (Dan Hedaya) with Ray (John Getz), one of Marty’s bartenders. Marty hires Visser, an unscrupulous detective, to kill them. But Visser (M. Emmet Walsh) has other, more lucrative plans of his own. Part of the series “The Coen Brothers,” playing select weekends at midnights, July 24-September 12, 2009 in our ongoing Waverly Midnights program.

R, 99 Minutes
MGM, USA, 1984


"Black humor, abundant originality and a brilliant visual style make Joel Coen's Blood Simple, a directorial debut of extraordinary promise."
- Janet Maslin, New York Times
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