Fargo

Movie 🎥 Review: “Fargo”. Critics gave it a 93% the users an 85%. Rated: R with an IMDb 8.1/10.

"Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.

Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where Joel Coen won the festival's Best Director Award and the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or. A critical and commercial success, Fargo received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Pitcture. McDormand received the Best Actress Oscar, and the Coens won in the Best Original Screenplay category.

The film was selected in 2006 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"........one of only six films so designated in its first year of eligibility. In 1998, the American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American films in history. A Coen-produced FX TV series of the same name, inspired by Fargo and taking place in the same universe, premiered in 2014 and was critically acclaimed.

This is probably the 5th time I have watched this movie and I personally like this as one of my all time favorite movies.  I also watched the FX TV series and it too was amazing and spell bounding.

The movie has a superb cast with a story line that will keep you glued to everything that occurs throughout the film.  This movie has forever been noted for a particular scene that has stuck in the heads of everyone who's watched it.......no spoiler alert here you're going to have to watch to see it.