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Fargo
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Fargo is a 1996 crime drama and neo-noir film written, directed, and produced by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen. The English-language movie stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, and Harve Presnell. Roger Deakins served as director of photography, while Carter Burwell composed the music. The production was handled by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films, with Tim Bevan as executive producer.
The film has a runtime of 98 minutes and was distributed by Gramercy Pictures and Netflix. It originated in the United States and the United Kingdom, with a narrative location in Fargo. The work received the Academy Award for Best Actress and the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. It also won the London Film Critics Circle Award for Film of the Year and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film.
Fargo received nominations for the Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Cinematography. The film holds an IMDb rating of 8.1 based on 787,975 votes and a TMDb average of 7.849 from 9,072 votes. Its production budget was 7,000,000, and it generated 60,611,975 in revenue.
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7.8Jerry, 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!
Cast
- Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson
- William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard
- Steve Buscemi as Carl Showalter
- Peter Stormare as Gaear Grimsrud
- Harve Presnell as Wade Gustafson
- John Carroll Lynch as Norm Gunderson
Themes
- salesclerk
- unsociability
- police
- cheating
- ransom
- winter
- kidnapping
- minnesota
- dark comedy
- north dakota
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Encyclopedic overview
Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, and Peter Stormare. McDormand plays pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson, who investigates after a car salesman, Jerry Lundegaard (Macy), hires two dimwitted criminals (Buscemi and Stormare) to kidnap his wife to extort a ransom from her wealthy father.
Filmed in the United States in early 1995, Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. Joel Coen won the festival's Prix De La Mise En Scène (Best Director Award). The film was a critical and commercial success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy and Buscemi. Fargo received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Macy, winning two: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens.
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