A Simple Plan
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A Simple Plan is a novel by American novelist Scott Smith. It was published in 1993. A movie based on the novel was made in 1998 and directed by Sam Raimi. A Simple Plan is predominantly a moral tale which deals with issues of greed, the American dream and the nature of good and evil. The main characters are depicted as everyday people who have "normal" values and ambitions, and thus their actions are intended somewhat as a cautionary tale. The value of human life quickly becomes the highest priority perverted by the pursuit of easy wealth, after which all else follows in attempts to hide wrong-doing.
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Two brothers and a friend happen upon a crashed airplane in the woods. The pilot is dead and the cockpit contains a gym bag with $4.4 million in one-hundred-dollar notes. They decide to keep the money, dividing it equally, but their plans go wrong when others come close to discovering their secret. The novel is a cautionary of intrigue, deceit and murder that ends in the deaths of two of the friends, many of their acquaintances, and some unfortunate people who happened by at the wrong time
