While I am not really a big fan of the Coen brothers I liked most of their movies I saw, the best being THE HUDSUCKER PROXY. Having heard for years about FARGO since they made also a TV show based on it, I knew that some day I would have seen it, and I did last March. Considering that to date there are 1,087 reviews I'll be short.

Jerry Lundergaard (William Macy) is an idiot businessman that has some problems in money. For having more money he has a plan: to fake the kidnapping of his wife Jean so that his father in law is forced to pay the ransom. After the advice of a car repairman he goes to a bar in Fargo where he meets Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaear Grimsud (Peter Stormare) and promises them to give a car and, give half of the ransom money to both of them. Carl and Gaear succedd but Jerry didn't considered that the two are idiots: while Carl drives the car with the hostage Gaear shoots a police officer and two that were witnesses to the scene. All goes unnoticed until Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand) comes, and she takes the problem personally while she is also waiting a baby. There are lots of twists and turns, but it's best that you see them for yourselves.

I liked the performances: William Macy is perfect for the role of the salesman that plots the kidnapping of his wife, and Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare are great as his bumbling henchmen. And while Frances McDormand looks like a supporting character, she truly deserved her Academy Award for best Actress (see the ending and you'll understand what I mean). The setting was cool in a way, and the whole movie has some sort of nostalgic feeling from the 1990s that even folks who didn't lived there like me would have.

In substance, FARGO stands to his reputation as a cult movie and it's certainly a must see. Just don't have too much expectations for it.