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A seven-time Oscar®-nominated film, the Coen Brothers’ snowy thriller is both celebrated as a darkly comic twist on the thriller genre and also as a film of great visual beauty, with cinematography by regular Coen Brothers collaborator, Roger Deakins.
Small-time Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can collect the ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Once people start dying, the very chipper and very pregnant Police Chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand, who won an Oscar® for her performance) takes the case. Is she up for this challenge? You betcha.
Reviews
"It rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I’ve ever seen." –Roger Ebert
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