IFWT #44 - A Simple Plan (1998)

For our second episode of 2023, we’re venturing out to the snowy plains of Minnesota, where 3 ordinary men come across a crashed plane containing a dead pilot and, more importantly, over $4 million in cash. Rather than bringing them happiness and financial security, it causes them to fear, distrust and suspect one another, and the harder they try to cling to their dreams of lifelong wealth, the more dire the consequences end up being.  Sam Raimi, the guy who directed The Evil Dead, The Hudsucker Proxy, Spider-Man, Drag Me To Hell and many others, made one of his more conventional, yet deceptively complex films in 1998 with A Simple Plan. This week we’re lacing up our boots and trudging through the snow to find out why this often-overlooked gem is more than deserving of a vintage In Film We Trust deep dive.