I loved this movie, my wife hated it. It is, granted, an acquired taste, as are most Coen Bros. movies ("Big Lebowski" more so than most). One of the things that brings me back to this film over and over again is the realistic portrayal, particularly with regard to the accent, of upper-midwesterners. There's not much more frustrating to me than films that purportedly are set in a locale, yet the characters do or say nothing that people who actually live there would ("Stigmata" is a particularly egriegous example that takes place right here in Pittsburgh). I like the story, like the dark humor, but the characters are the clincher. Oh gee, ja.