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This 1996 motion picture is one of the better movies to come out in the last few years. It should have won the best picture Oscar but lost out to The English Patient. Frances McDormand did win the best actress award for her portrayal of Marge Gunderson. This is the story of a car salesman whose inept foray into crime turns into disaster. The salesman, brilliantly played by William H. Macy, hires two bumbling small time criminals to kidnap his wife. The plan is to collect the ransom from his rich father-in-law (Harve Presnell) and split it with the kidnappers. The two kidnappers, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare), have no idea that the car salesman is trying to cheat them by lying about the size of the ransom. The quiet Gaear Grimsrud is probably the more interesting of the two kidnappers. He's been referred to by viewers of the film as "Mr. Personality". The scheme eventually goes awry and the kidnapping turns to murder. Frances McDormand plays the Chief of Police in Brainerd, Minnesota where the kidnapping turns sour and her department has to investigate the crime. The movie begins with the hiring of the kidnappers in Fargo, North Dakota but the rest of the story takes place in Minnesota. A more descriptive title might have been Brainerd, but that sounds more like a story about a cartoon dog. Most of the characters in this movie sound just like my relatives in Minnesota. Yes, they do talk that way and their mannerisms are well captured, too. The picture was written by Joel and Ethan Coen. Ethan Coen produced the movie and Joel Coen directed it. The Coen brothers have brought us some not very memorable movies (I'm not including Raising Arizona in this list) but Fargo is a true masterpiece. Sure, there are people who'd say that all their films were great but these people are almost as cultish as the Quentin Tarantino worshipers. Some of you have written and asked what happened to the people in the story. I don't know. First of all, the story, if at all true, never happened in Minnesota. The plot may be a compilation of events that took place around the country, but it certainly isn't a true story as portrayed in the movie. If you want information about the film, go to The Brainerd Daily Dispatch's Fargo page to learn more. Zipperfinch Lake Stores
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(1978) An army Captain searches for a renegade Colonel In Vietnam. |
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(1955) A story of juvenile delinquency at an inner city school. |
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(1968) A San Francisco police detective searches for gunmen who killed an informant. |
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(1967) An ex war hero is sentenced to a chain gang for cutting the heads off parking meters. |
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(1972) Four friends go on a canoe trip where they encounter unforeseen terrors. |
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(1973) A sophisticated assassin is hired by a French group to kill President de Gaulle. |
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(1973) An Arizona motorcycle patrolman tries to become a detective. |
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(1966) Ray Bradbury's futuristic tale of book burning and mind control. |
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(1964) Cold War thriller where U.S. bombers are unleashed upon The Soviet Union. |
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(1996) Car salesman hires two inept criminals to kidnap his wife. |
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(1989) Colonel Robert Gould Shaw commands the Civil War's first all volunteer black regiment. |
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(1967) Adaptation of Truman Capote's novel about the murder of a farm family in rural Kansas. |
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(1960) Account of trial of John Scopes for teaching The Theory of Evolution in Tennessee. |
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(1983) Control of classmates at a southern military school by a group known as "The Ten". |
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(1986) An idealistic soldier learns that idealism doesn't exist in Vietnam. |
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(1983) Story that covers the breaking of the sound barrier through the Mercury space program. |
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(1964) Senior military officers plot to take over the government of The United States. |
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Fairly accurate account of Colonel George A. Custer leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn. |
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(1981) Louisiana National Guard on maneuvers in a swamp meet up with local opposition. |
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(1974) A gang hijacks a New York subway train and holds the passengers for ransom. |
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(1985) A Philadelphia detective hides in a rural Amish community from corrupt police . |
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(1980) Story of dysfunctional crew and passengers on board a Chicago bound flight |
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(1973) One night in the lives of teenagers in 1962 |
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(1978) A run down fraternity's members cause chaos on campus. |
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(1944) Two elderly matrons poison lonely men and bury the bodies in the basement. |
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(1970) A cowboy inherits a brothel called The Cheyenne Social Club. |
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(1964) Insane base commander sends his B52 bombers into the Soviet Union. |
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(1950) Quiet, unassuming man has a giant rabbit for a friend. |
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(1959) Smallest country in the world declares war on the U.S. and wins. |
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(1981) Elderly couple spend a summer at their cottage on a lake. |
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(1987) An ex-con and a policewoman kidnap a baby to raise as their own. |
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(1969) A drifter on his way to Australia takes the post as sheriff of a western boom town. |
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(1998) Villagers try to collect a dead man's lottery winnings. |
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