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Raising Arizona (1987)

This Coen brothers classic was reviled by Herb Drinkwater, the mayor of Scottsdale from 1980 until 1996, who proclaimed that the film had "no redeeming social value" and that it "certainly isn't the image Arizona wants to project." A fun fact: Matthew McConaughey claimed that Raising Arizona is the movie he's watched the most times in his life.

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