Simple minds make simple plans.
When Hank, Jacob and Lou find a bag containing four and one half million dollars in the woods, their simple plan looks foolproof. Sit on the money, see if anyone is looking for it, if they are burn it. That decision, once made, sets in motion a series of catastrophic events that threaten the trio with increasingly severe consequences. A Simple Plan , on one level, is actually painful to watch. We feel for these characters who, driven by the lust of money, start on a downward moral spiral that, once begun, looks impossible to stop.