A Simple Plan

A Simple Plan (1998) is a crime thriller from director Sam Raimi you can watch online on iFILM. In the snowbound woods of rural Minnesota, two brothers and a drinking buddy stumble onto a crashed plane. Inside sits a duffel bag holding more than four million dollars in cash.

Hank (Bill Paxton) wants to play it smart: hide the money, wait out the winter, draw no attention. His brother Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton) and their friend Lou have rougher ideas. The longer the three men sit on a fortune that isn't theirs, the more greed and fear gnaw at them. One small lie demands the next. Hank's pregnant wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) starts coaching him on how to cover their tracks, pulling the whole family deeper into trouble.

Raimi, best known for the Evil Dead films, keeps the gore mostly offscreen here; the dread comes from arithmetic and the quiet panic of ordinary people. Billy Bob Thornton earned an Academy Award nomination as the slow, trusting Jacob. The tagline says it plainly: sometimes good people do evil things. Stream A Simple Plan (1998) online on iFILM.