Fargo

4.60
    Fargo
    1996

    Synopsis

    Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

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    Cast

    • Frances McDormandMarge Gunderson
    • William H. MacyJerry Lundegaard
    • Steve BuscemiCarl Showalter
    • Peter StormareGaear Grimsrud
    • Harve PresnellWade Gustafson
    • John Carroll LynchNorm Gunderson
    • Kristin RudrüdJean Lundegaard
    • Bruce BohneLou
    • Steve ReevisShep Proudfoot
    • Steve ParkMike Yanagita

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen.
    • 90

      Washington Post

      Frances McDormand enjoys the comedic role of her career.
    • 90

      Variety

      In the darkly humorous Fargo, iconoclastic filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen manage the precarious balancing act of respecting genre conventions and simultaneously pushing them to an almost surrealistic extreme. Very funny stuff.
    • 88

      San Francisco Examiner

      The Coens haven't been this sharp, focused and fluid since their first film. This is "Blood Simple's" promise fulfilled.
    • 80

      Film.com

      This mordant, macabre look at the American obsession with fast food, television and murder is icily funny.
    • 80

      Chicago Reader

      What mainly registers is the quiet desperation and simple pleasures of ordinary midwestern lives, the fatuous ways that people cover up their emotional and intellectual gaps, and the alternating pointlessness and cuteness of human existence. This may be a masterpiece of sorts, but it left me feeling rotten.
    • 75

      ReelViews

      It's easy to admire what the Coens are trying to do in Fargo, but more difficult to actually like the film.
    • 70

      Film.com

      Uniquely fascinating.

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