Fargo is the definition of when rural community meets inner-city crime...but doesn't know it

Rating: 10/10 (16 April 2006)

Jery Lundegaard (William H Macey) is in debt. He hatches a plot to hold his own wife (Kristin Rudrüd) hostage...and then realises he has a way out. But by then it's too late and Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) are already on their way.
This appears at first glance as a slightly slow paced thriller, but in truth it's a non-stop acceleration into the depths of "salaried" criminals.
Frances McDormund hardly registers in the films credits, but I challenge any man alive not to warm to her motherly love and want her as his wife. She is truly stunning as Marge Gunderson and perhaps more than anyone provides the comical link between "commercial" America and the true Scandinavian dominated north-mid-west.
This is a film that makes you laugh under your breath all the way through...only to make you question why at the end. It's not 100% serious, but it's more than 101% intended.
Buscemi and Stormare are exceptional as crimanals, and if it wasn't for McDormand they should have gained Oscars for this, but FMcD steals the show in all senses.
This is a film you will watch time and time again and still see new nuances.