Genre: Crime, Thriller, Comedy, Black Comedy, Police, Murder, Kidnapping, Betrayal, Deception, Scams And Cons, Investigation, Tragedy, Gore, Cult Classic, Hostage, Suspense, Psychos
Tagline: A homespun murder story.
Plot: Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a bumbling duo to kidnap his wife--a plan that goes horribly awry, leading to homicide. Enter Marge Gunderson, one of the most fabulous movie cops in film history. The very-pregnant Marge--played marvelously by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning and career-defining performance--just goes about her everyday business, eating (in nearly every scene), talking to the people in the community, and examining bloody corpses as if no day is different from the next. A multiple murder in the small town of Brainerd, Minnesota--home of Paul Bunyan, as the sign claims--seems to have little effect on her. Yet she has an innate cop sense--she is very, very good at her job and determined to solve the case in her offhanded manner. FARGO is yet another offbeat, highly entertaining film from the Coen brothers (BARTON FINK, BLOOD SIMPLE). The film is nearly colorless; instead, director of photography Roger Deakins washes the screen in the blinding white of the snow, occasionally breaking for the drab grays and browns of police uniforms and winter jackets. Carter Burwell's score further enhances the slow, steady pace of this
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Joel Coen
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona |
 | Ethan Coen
Raising Arizona, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Ladykillers |
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Joel Coen
Crimewave, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
| Ethan Coen
The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Crimewave |
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