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 (Spider-Man, The Evil Dead), A Simple Plan is a ''quietly devastating thriller'' (New York Times) for which Billy Bob Thornton was Oscar nominated.