Frances McDormand, Harve Presnell, John Carroll
Jerry Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her ...( read more
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DVD Release Date: June 24, 1997
Stats: 12,339 reviews
The story is beautifully simple, but its the characters and the actors performances that make this film so brilliant. It's easily McDormand's best to date. The best thing about this film is that when it came out cinema was going through a bit of a stale patch but when Fargo came ...( read more)
Funny movie. Macy really got on my nerves, but otherwise I really enjoyed it.
seen it a load of times and again recently. i think this is my favourite coen brothers film. it just seems so natural. you could believe it was real, even though it wasn't a true story. haha! tell that to the woman who came all the way from tokyo to fargo to try find and dig up t...( read more)
"A homespun murder story."
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.
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Dark comic u...( read more)
I don't get why this was such a popular, "great" movie. I didn't hate it, but I didn't particularly like it either.
this movie is like a good burrito, if you like it from the first bite, you will not stop until you finish it.
I know, I know. it's abso absurd I haven't seen Fargo before. It wasn't until midway through my 23rd that I witnessed Steve Buscemi's masterpiece performance but as far as the Coen brothers go, it was by no means my fav. For that era, The Big Lebowski takes the cake but as for mo...( read more)
The crime genre was never the same after Fargo. Darkly comical and quirky with the right amounts of violence, the film hits all the right notes.
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he was kinda funny looking
funny looking,, how
oh just the regular kind a,way
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