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William H. Macy
Steve Buscemi
Frances McDormand
Peter Stormare
John Carroll Lynch
Tony Denman

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A an indebted man hires hit men to kidnap his wife when it all goes wrong and he tries to fix the problems.

08/07/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Ah, hon, ya got Arby's all over me

When a movie like Fargo comes along, you almost don’t know how to react. All of the different genres, emotions and categories that you could slap on it still could not give the uninitiated a solid description of the film. The intensity is mixed with the mundane. The comedy is mixed with the tragedy. It is a lot to digest at first, but when the dust settles, the true genius of the whole product is made clear. Fargo may be a film that is challenging, but more importantly it is one that is rewarding.

The movie begins with a man named Jerry who is having financial problems and needs to come up with money quickly. A series of fortunate (or unfortunate) events leads him to be introduced to two criminals, Carl and Gaear, who are to help him come up with big money fast. The plan is for them to...

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3.5/4 

04/29/2012 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

"Fargo" by Yojimbo

Following the blizzard (ahem) of hype surrounding the Coen brothers' latest, I thought I'd revisit an old favourite. The Coens once again revisit noir, but at their most playful which is obvious from the opening screen that proclaims "THIS IS A TRUE STORY". It isn't. It deconstructs the genre, transporting it's elements from the shadowy streets of the big city to the bright white snow covered open spaces of Minnesota. The crime is investigated by Marge Gundersson, a waddling, heavily pregnant housewife whose cheery agony aunt approach to the investigation is a million miles from the hard-nosed tough guys we are used to. The crime is planned not by a criminal mastermind, but a cowardly used car salesman with ideas above his station, and perpetrated by a pair of inept and seedy small time c...

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4/4 

08/22/2011 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Fargo review

A crime dark comedy loosely based on a real incident, one of the Coen's highly re-watchable films produced. Highly entertaining than Millers Crossing or No Country for Old Men while being intelligently satisfying much like A Serious Man and The Man Who Wasn't There while injecting the humor similar to The Big Lebowski. Jerry Lundegaard (Macy) has plans of having his own wife kidnapped to gain financially from the ransom money from his father-in-law. A pair of criminals was tasked to do the job. Carl Showalter (Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Stormare were referred by an ex-convict named Shep Proudfoot (Steve Reevis). A lot of unfortunate events happen along the way when Carl and Gaer kidnap Jean (Jerry’s wife). A 7-month pregnant chirpy cop Marge Gunderson (McDormand) tries to resolve t...

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4/4