Fargo

Joel & Ethan Coen·98 min

A car salesman drowning in debt hires two criminals to kidnap his own wife, and the scheme curdles into murder the small, stupid way real crimes do. The Coens stage it against an endless Minnesota winter that makes every drop of blood look obscene on the snow.

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