Raising Arizona (1987)
In the Coen Brothers' wild, fast-paced, Looney Tunes and Preston Sturges-like screwball comedy/fantasy - an original, contemporary, madcap screwball farce about the kidnapping of a baby (one of the Arizona quintuplets) by a redneck childless couple (Holly Hunter and Nicolas Cage):
the eleven-minute opening sequence (before the credits) of the first meetings between the two protagonists after paroles and multiple returns to prison: hapless petty crook Herbert "H. I." McDunnough (Nicolas Cage) whose crime addiction was robbing convenience stores, and female police officer and photographer Edwina or "Ed" (Holly Hunter): "My name is H I McDunnough. Call me Hi. The first time I met Ed was in the county Iockup in Tempe, Arizona" - as she kept instructing him to "Turn to the Right" for his crime photo, he called her a "little desert flower"; he learned her husband had abandoned her: "She said her fiance had run off with a student cosmetoIogist who knew how to pIy her feminine wiIes"; after repeated incarcerations for his "rambunctious behavior," H.I. was hopeful: "But I couIdn't heIp thinkin' that a brighter future Iay ahead. A future that was onIy eight to fourteen months away" - and when he became a free man, he proposed to Edwina