Amazon.com Essentials:
Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan
produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper
that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut
suspense thriller, and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins
when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by William H. Macy)
ineptly orchestrates the kidnapping of his own wife. The plan goes horribly
awry in the hands of bumbling bad guys Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare
(one of them being described by a local girl as "kinda funny lookin'" and
"not circumcised"), and the pregnant sheriff of Brainerd, Minnesota,
(played exquisitely by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning role) is
suddenly faced with a case of multiple murders. Her investigation is laced
with offbeat observations about life in the rural hinterland of Minnesota
and North Dakota, and Fargo embraces its local yokels with
affectionate humor. At times shocking and hilarious, Fargo is
utterly unique and distinctly American, bearing the unmistakable stamp of
its inspired creators. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com Essentials:
Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan
produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper
that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut
suspense thriller, and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins
when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by William H. Macy)
ineptly orchestrates the kidnapping of his own wife. The plan goes horribly
awry in the hands of bumbling bad guys Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare
(one of them being described by a local girl as "kinda funny lookin'" and
"not circumcised"), and the pregnant sheriff of Brainerd, Minnesota
(played exquisitely by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning role) is
suddenly faced with a case of multiple murders. Her investigation is laced
with offbeat observations about life in the rural hinterland of Minnesota
and North Dakota, and Fargo embraces its local yokels with
affectionate humor. At times shocking and hilarious, Fargo is
utterly unique and distinctly American, bearing the unmistakable stamp of
its inspired creators. --Jeff Shannon
