Raising Arizona — IQ Score 141/200
Raising Arizona has an IQ Score of 141/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
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IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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The TVI Take
The Coens' second feature — Nicolas Cage and Holly Hunter as childless white-trash newlyweds who steal a baby from a furniture magnate's quintuplets — committed to a register most American comedies refuse: visual exuberance (the chase sequence is one of the most dynamically-shot in 1980s film) wedded to genuine pathos about reproduction and inadequacy. Tonally distinct from anything else the Coens have made.
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