My 3rd favorite film of all time!

Rating: 10/10 (10 September 1998)

This delicious blend of dark drama and light comedy follows the hilarious investigation of a kidnapping scheme gone wrong. The incomparable Frances McDormand gives a brilliant performance as a sweet, incompetent, pregnant sheriff and William H. Macy is equally good as a family man whose kidnapping scheme is falling apart and is making him implode. The screenplay is see-it-to-believe-it funny, the direction great and the cinematography perfect. Those miles of snow will be forever etched in my heart.