Fargo

Fargo

A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere.

Rating

4.0 (2)

Release Date

3/8/1996

Runtime

98 mins

Overview

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$7,000,000

Revenue

$60,611,975

Homepage

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How It Feels

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A blackly comic crime saga where a desperate car salesman's ransom scheme spirals into genuine violence and tragedy, observed with clear-eyed sympathy by a pregnant police chief. It's funny and horrifying in equal measure, grounded in the mundane details of Midwestern life that make the brutality all the more shocking.

Mood

BittersweetAbsurdTenseUnsettling

Themes

CrimeFamily

Look

NaturalisticHigh-contrastDesaturated

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Graphic violence

Reviews

stormaciousd

I spent half of the movie thinking about how great Steve Buscemi is and the other half thinking I should buy Drop Dead Gorgeous on bluray, you betcha.

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