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: 12,369 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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15-11-09
"A homespun murder story."
Very american movie.I cannot see anything special about it.
An ordinary story without suspense.Moreover,They behave weirdly as if they were aliens,the way they talk, act, walk especially the officer with her husband.
As a fan of many of the other films by the Coen Brother's, I was eagerly anticipating watching this film. Maybe their recent films that I have seen made me build it up to be more than it was. Due to this, or maybe just the fact of the film, I wasn't as impressed as I was expectin...( 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.
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he was kinda funny looking
funny looking,, how
oh just the regular kind a,way
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