Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Herbert "H.I."/"Hi" McDunnough
- Holly Hunter as Edwina "Ed" McDunnough
- Trey Wilson as Nathan Arizona, Sr.
- John Goodman as Gale Snoats
- William Forsythe as Evelle Snoats
- Sam McMurray as Glen
- Frances McDormand as Dot
- Randall 'Tex' Cobb as Leonard Smalls (The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse)
- T.J. Kuhn as Nathan Arizona, Jr.
- Lynne Dumin Kitei as Florence Arizona
- Warren Keith as Younger FBI agent
- Henry M. Kendrick as Older FBI agent
- Keith Jandacek as Whitey, Convenience store clerk
- M. Emmet Walsh as Machine Shop Ear-Bender
- Patrick McAreavy as Whitetail Ferguson
In contrast to Blood Simple, the characters of Raising Arizona were written to be very sympathetic. The Coens wrote the part of Ed for Holly Hunter.
Several babies had to be fired on set due to them taking their first steps rather than crawling. One mother put her baby's shoes on backwards to keep the baby crawling rather than walking. The character of Leonard Smalls was created when the Coen Brothers tried to envision an "evil character" not from their imagination, but one that the character Hi would have thought up. Randall "Tex" Cobb gave the Coens difficulty on set, with Joel noting that "he's less an actor than a force of nature...I don't know if I'd rush headlong into employing him for a future film."
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