Fargo is a black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, a pregnant Minnesota police chief investigating a triple homicide that takes place after a desperate car salesman William H.
Macy hires two dim-witted criminals Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare to kidnap his wife in order to extort a hefty ransom from her wealthy father Harve Presnell.
The film was an American and British co-production. The film was both a critical and commercial success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' direction and script and the performances of McDormand, Macy and Buscemi.
In , the American Film Institute named it one of the greatest American films in history the most recent film on the list up to that point but it was subsequently de-listed in In , the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.
In , Jerry Lundegaard is the executive sales manager of a Minneapolis car dealership owned by his father-in-law, Wade Gustafson. However, Wade and his accountant Stan Grossman inform Jerry that Wade will handle the deal himself, offering Jerry only a modest finder's fee.
