Fargo (1996)
This film has gotten quite a lot of accolades. All deserved. No hyperbole. It's a quaint, darkly sarcastic comedic story that is fully character driven and just surfs on the waves of the talent involved. No really: the actors are all most excellent and their performances are what makes this one worth watching. Especially Frances McDormand nails it. This is the story of Jerry Lundegaard, a complete loser who works in a car dealership and who has debts thanks to his immense ineptitude for - well - everything. He comes up with a harebrained scheme to have his wife kidnapped, pay for it with money from his rich father-in-law and keep a large chunk of that money to pay off his debts. Too bad he hired two complete schmucks to take care of the kidnapping. Well okay: one schmuck and one psychopath. The simple plan immediately goes topsy-turvy when one of the guys kills three people outside of the small town of Brainerd. Hence, local police officer Marge Gunderson is on the ca...
