A Simple Plan (1998) on Netflix
Hank, his brother Jacob and Jacob's friend Lou find a crashed plane in the Minnesota woods holding $4.4 million in cash. They agree to sit on the money until the snow melts.
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Plot summary
Hank is an accountant at a feed mill in Wright County, Minnesota, and his wife Sarah is pregnant. On New Year's Eve, after visiting their parents' graves, Hank, his brother Jacob and Jacob's friend Lou come upon a crashed plane in the woods. Inside lie a dead man and a bag of $4.4 million in $100 bills. Lou and Jacob urge Hank not to report it. Hank suggests keeping the cash until the snow melts and the wreck is found, then dividing it and leaving town. The three agree to keep quiet, and Hank tells Sarah.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about A Simple Plan (1998)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To show Hank attacked by a flock of crows inside the plane, puppets were used to attack Paxton as he appeared on screen, while two live crows were used to attack an animatronic replica of the actor.
- Paxton learned of the novel A Simple Plan from his father five years before securing the role of Hank. He recalled that a whole list of actors and directors marched through the project, and that he and Billy Bob were set to do the roles in 1997 before it fell apart.
- The Minnesota shoot was plagued by a lack of snow, so the filmmakers assembled a special effects team to create a combination of real snow and fake synthetic snow that was made from shaved ice.
SPOILER
After Paxton's death in February 2017, Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com called his performance as Hank the best of his career, and his most sorrowful as well as his most frightening: an outwardly ordinary man who has no idea what kind of evil he is capable of.
