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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Thriller
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Release:
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Director:
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Joel Coen
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Actors:
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Steve Reevis,
Kurt Schweickhardt,
Sharon Anderson,
Kristin Rudrüd,
Sally Wingert,
Larissa Kokernot,
Melissa Peterman,
Steve Edelman,
William H. Macy,
Steve Buscemi,
Peter Stormare,
Harve Presnell,
Tony Denman,
Gary Houston,
Warren Keith
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Duration:
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94 min.
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Rating:
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(8.3/10)115.5
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Plot Summary:
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Jerry Lundegaard is in a monetary jam and, out of desperation, comes up with a chart to rate someone to kidnap his mate and demand from her well-to-do father, to be secretly split between Jerry and the perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the most astute of individuals, hires a couple of real losers from the frozen northern reaches of Fargo, North Dakota for the job. Then things set up to slip from dejected to worse as Jerry helplessly watches on.
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The Coens at the top of their game
Fargo represents The Coen Brothers at the very pinnacle of their creatrive genius. Combining an interesting plot with black comedy and characters you cannot help but engage with, Fargo is a film that you will remember for a LONG time.
The story is supposedly 'base on actual events' tht took place in 1988, but it is really nothing more than your typical kidnap gone wrong. What makes is so much better than any other film like this, is the way the Coens inject their own brand of humour throughout as well as giving the story a couple of unique twists.
William H Macy is simply brilliant as the car salesman put under pressure to recoup the money he has stolen from his work, and Steve Buscemi steals the whole film as part of the hapless duo who agree to kidnap his wife for...
Fargo
Smart, stylish, frozen Midwestern noir from the Coen brothers
Just when the ultra-ironic, ultra-violent thriller seemed to have been done to death by Tarantino and his acolytes, along came the Coen brothers to breathe fresh life into the genre.
David Mamet-favourite Macy is wonderfully weak and wicked as Jerry Lundegaard the Swedish-American car-salesman whose attempts to mastermind the perfect crime - the kidnapping of his wife - go horribly, violently and hilariously wrong. For a start he has hired two trigger-happy crooks, the verbose Carl (Buscemi) and the taciturn Gaear (Stormare) to carry out the kidnapping. Pretty soon people are starting to get shot and this attracts the attention of the smart, pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson (McDormand, who d...
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