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About Fargo

In this seven-time Oscar-nominated film, things go terribly awry when small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can  collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand, who won an Oscar for her performance) takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha. [98 min; crime, drama, thriller; English]

"Fargo is a concert performance—an illuminating amalgam of emotion and thought. It glimpses into the heart of man and unearths a blackly comic nature, hellishly mercurial and selfish, yet strangely innocent. If it weren't so funny, it would be unbearably disturbing." — Arnold Wayne Jones, Dallas Observer

"A classic story of unique quirkiness, where the characters themselves are just as memorable as the events that unfold." — Allen Almachar, The MacGuffin

"The Coen brothers get back to basics with Fargo by going back to their home state of Minnesota for one of the best films in their career." — Danielle Solzman, Solzy at the Movies

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