Simple Plan, A

VHS, R, 120 minutes, PARAMOUNT

The American Dream. In a gym bag. That's how three men (Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, Brent Briscoe) size up what they've found in the snowy Minnesota woods. They've come across a downed plane with a rotting corpse inside . . . and over $4 million stuffed inside a duffel bag. Finders, keepers? Maybe. But first they'll need a foolproof plan. So they and the wife (Bridget Fonda)of one of the men start out with a scheme that's perfect in its simplicity...and lethal in its miscalculation of the human heart. Mistrust, murder, intrigue - all are soon at work in this stark, twist-filled thriller. Directed by Sam Raimi ("Darkman"), "A Simple Plan" "is the most gripping dramatization in years of the proposition that crime will always cost more than it pays" (Owen Gleiberman, "Entertainment Weekly").