6. 'Raising Arizona'

H.I. McDonnough (Nicolas Cage) in 'Raising Arizona' (1987)

Back when Cage used to specialize in playing dumb, his crowning achievement was the hapless recidivist in this early Coen comedy. Despite having married a cop, he falls back into his old ways when the childless couple decide to kidnap one of a furniture tycoon's baby quintuplets to raise as their own. Watching Cage's Hi as a stick-up man stealing a package of diapers is a thing of absurd beauty. Or, as a witness notes, "Son, you got a panty on your head."