By skyforbes Bridget Fonda's performance in A Simple Plan is one of my favorite performances in 90s film because she doesn't play her character, Sarah Mitchell, like an over the top baddie. If anything, you assume she's going to be the voice of reason, the one who puts sense to her husband and tries to do the right thing.
Instead, she becomes a Lady MacBeth type of character, increasingly manipulating her husband into trying to keep the money by emotionally blackmailing him. Every time Paxton's Hank realizes it's gone too far, she brings up the struggles they go through, even using her child to dissuade Hank, and then having him turn against his friends because she's so desperate to keep the money bag.
Bridget Fonda never got the same critical acclaim as the other Fondas but here, she knocks it out of the park and without being showy or chewing the scenery or screaming. Everything she does is under the guise of calmness and I was impressed by that choice.