Crimewave

Although his next film, Crimewave (1985), was hobbled when studio executives fundamentally altered the story with editorial cuts, it was written by Joel and Ethan Coen and began an association between Raimi and the brothers that proved to be mutually beneficial.

…Sam Raimi’s comic horror film Crimewave, and she played the baby-mad Dot in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona (1987). She won praise and an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress for her portrayal of a submissive wife who chooses to unmask her racist husband in Mississippi Burning (1988), and…