Fargo (1996)
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				movie info		5: excellent
				frances mcdormand		4: very good
				william h macy		3: average
				steve buscemi		2: fair
				peter stormare		1: poor
				martytown rating:		name (required)
				average rating at martytown: 4.00

This is a story about an average guy, Jerry Lundegaard (played brilliantly by William H. Macy) who cooks up a scheme to kidnap his wife and share in the ransom money to be paid by his father-in-law. Of course, everything goes wrong, and little by little Jerry's life falls apart. This movie has a Hitchcock feel to it, with the ever increasing sense of chaos building up to the point of being trapped with no way out. Set in present day Minnesota, the Coen Brothers finally have left their period pieces behind and returned to the suspense/crime genre where they first made an impact with Blood Simple. While I can't quite give it my highest rating, it's a very good movie and worth seeing more than once.
— marty