Fargo
15 98 mins
MyPicturehouse rating
15 98 mins
MyPicturehouse rating
The Coen brothers' unique visual style and quirky sense of humour are superbly put to work in this blackly comic kidnap drama.
In a cold and snowy Minnesota in 1987, debt-ridden car salesman Jerry (William H. Macy) hires two thugs to kidnap his wife and collect a ransom from her rich father.
When the hapless pair shoot a state trooper and two innocent bystanders, the local Police Chief's (Frances McDormand, in an Oscar-winning role) leads keep coming back to the suspicious-looking Jerry.
Creating an array of intriguing characters, the Coens' script is a triumph of understated humour that earned them an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.