Fargo / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment in association with Working Title Films ; directed by Joel Coen ; produced by Ethan Coen ; written by Ethan Coen, Joel Coen.
Publisher:
Gramercy Pictures,
Copyright Date:
1996
Description:
1 videocassette of 1 (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. viewing copy. 10 reels of 10 on 5 (ca. 8550 ft.) : sd., col. ; 35 mm. ref print.
Copyright: Polygram Film Productions, BV. Appl. au.: Polygram Filmed Entertainment Distribution, Inc. Prev.: Screenplay rev. reg. 1994, PAu1-930-577 and 1995, PAu1-910-936. NM: motion picture. DCR 1995; REG 11Jan96; PAu2-038-312. Copyright notice on film: Polygram Film Productions, BV ; 1995. Videocassette label lists running time of viewing copy as 98 minutes. LC holds unpublished copy (viewing copy) and original release copy (ref print). Summary taken from Sight and sound, June 1996, p. 41. Based on a true story. Sources used: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment product brochure, 1996, p. 8; Variety, 2/12/96; New York times, 3/8/96, p. C1, C16; Sight and sound, June 1996, p. 40-41; copyright data base; Hollywood creative directory, fall/winter 1995, v. 26, p. 109; Baseline, 9/11/96; International motion picture almanac, 1996, p. 594, 604. Frances McDormand (Marge Gunderson), William H. Macy (Jerry Lundegaard), Steve Buscemi (Carl Showalter), Harve Presnell (Wade Gustafson), Peter Stormare (Gaear Grimsrud).
Summary:
Jerry Lundegaard, a car sales executive in Minnesota who is deeply in debt, goes to Fargo to meet Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud to arrange their kidnapping of his wife, Jean. He plans to extort a million dollars from his father-in-law, Wade Gustafson, and pay them $80,000. Showalter and Grimsrud kidnap her but are stopped by a police officer, whom the latter kills. Marge Gunderson, the police chief of Brainerd, Minnesota, follows the trail of the killers to Minneapolis-St. Paul. Gustafson insists on paying the kidnappers and Showalter kills him. He buries most of the money and returns to find that Grimsrud has murdered Jean. Grimsrud then kills Showalter. Gunderson discovers their hideout and arrests Grimsrud. Lundegaard is arrested.
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