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| Fargo (Special Edition) [1996] | ![Fargo (Special Edition) [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41H4K6PSX1L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Actors: Frances Mcdormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare, Harve Presnell
Studio: MGM Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 1689
Format: Colour, Pal, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: Czech (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running Time: 98 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5050070008357
ASIN: B00008AWT1
Theatrical Release Date: March 8, 1996
Release Date: April 21, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: DVD, case and inlay all in very good condition. Ready to be posted from the UK.
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| Customer Reviews:
 An excellent, funny, disturbing movie August 8, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I put Fargo up there with the best. The Coens are young and productive, so it will be interesting to see what they come up with in their careers. They'll have a hard time topping Fargo. Some things I like about it...
--The way they mix violence with humor (not just gross-out easy laughs). Buscemi's reaction to Stormare shooting the cop is funny in a twisted way... but Stormare going after the young couple immediately after is scary and unsettling. This one scene sets the tone of the whole movie.
--Buscemi's reaction to Presnell's refusal to deal is funny...but Buscemi's reaction to being shot is also funny, and is also scary.
--Marge Gunderson feeling nauseated when she sees the mess at the crime scene...and it's just morning sickness. This brief moment really establishes her character.
--Marge Gunderson's relationship with her husband is really endearing, and is a thread that runs throughout the movie. It gives the movie a lot more humanity that most Coen films have.
--And Bill Macy; his character is so earnest and so out of his depth.
Fargo is a movie that stands up to repeated watching.
The DVD transfer is first-rate
An extremely original and entertaining movie. One of the Coen Brothers' cleverest. July 2, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This movie grabs you from the start. The inept bungling characters provide a fascinating dialog and a constant source of dark and clever humour. In the midst of this Frances McDormand's character methodically hones in on her suspects like a pregnant slow motion heat-seeking missile.
Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand, and William H Macy play their roles to perfection and top off a cast that is rarely bettered. Steve Buscemi again provides the perfect conduit for Coen Brothers dialog "[as a police officer approaches the kidnappers' car]... just keep it still there lady or we're gonna have to...you know...shoot ya"
This movie has achieved cult status which is no mean feat for one that has also won Oscars...just an indication of the Coen Brothers appeal and propensity to cross boundaries with their work.
Fargo Goes Far Beyond Your Average Black Comedy March 18, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
To many good film fanatics the assurance of William H Macy and Frances McDormand is normally enough to ensure a night in with the dvd player but for those who aren't familiar with the actors or the fantastic directorial work of the Coen Brothers this is going to convert you.
Quirky?! Yes its Coen Brothers work here.. but also hilarious Macy and McDormand stun in their Scandinavian lilts as a small town couple who are not so traditional. Steve Buscemi also shines and even though the language isn't exactly subtle the film is riddled with hilarious dark humour from beginning to end and is well worth watching for anyone who likes a bit of offbeat genius!
A Black Comedy Masterpiece March 12, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) plans to have his wife kidnapped to extort money from his wealthy father in law. The plan soon falls to pieces because of dim witted crooks (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) and the police instincts of heavily pregnant Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand).
The story is set against the snowy backdrop of North Dakota. The Coen brothers use the white expanse to beautifully frame many scenes. As usual with the Coens, there is an element of the blackest humour. The people of Brainerds small town sensibilities are magnified with affection (Marge is regularly seen having lunch with her dull husband Norm but they hardly ever discuss the case she is working on, instead discussing Norm's fishing or painting). The screenplay is elegantly endearing and Frances McDormand's kooky performance won her on academy award. Macy is particularly good as the loser car salesman who 'masterminded' the ridiculous plot to get himself out of financial trouble. He gets more and more stressed as the plot gets more and more out of control, never once thinking of the well being of anyone but himself.
The Coen brothers have a brilliant eye for a scene and ones that stands out are the murder on the highway, lit only by car headlights and of course the gruesome wood chipper scene. Fargo is an outstanding work and arguably their finest film.
Like This? Try: Raising Arizona
 Entralling Coen Brothers Work February 27, 2007
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
(Warning: since it is very common for Coen Brother films to contain murder and violence being concocted with blood and gory, avoid this for your own good, if you feel the material may be disturbing)
If Miller's Crossing is considered their masterpiece, this was their peak.
Fargo follows a pathetic, but nerdy car-dealer who forges a dangerous deal with two known partners in crime to deliberately kidnap his wife in order to make his father-in-law pay for ransom, for unpayed debts. However, the criminals don't agree and three murders occur, before a sharp, witty donut-loving pregnant woman police officer, known as Marge is eager to catch them on the act.....
Wildly predictable, yet so realistic. Fargo essentially has a bitter taste of ice, briskling along and something unexpecant happens out of the blue, which the Coen's have made, using trained and authentic Minnosouta accents. Trust me.
Rich, dark and bleak at the best of times, the Coen's invite you to become focused in the lair of your household to hold your attention by adding neccesary thought into the minds of the characters and how if initially they are the same people at the beginning by highlighting noticeable behaviour that reminds you, for example, little funny repetitious jokes by Marge, the long-eyed staring of Gaer and the frantic, supposebly loving perfect husband-stereotype mode who is Jerry.
What surprises me about Fargo is how clever it appears to be, when it shouldn't be. All the characters more or less change, but Marge is the most noticeable, played brillantly by Coen regular Francis McDonald, who feels she goes unnoticed by her own force and her own relaxed, but retarded husband. Fargo reminds you, that the people closest to you, make the biggest differences to your life, it's about loyalty. A commonly misunderstood piece of work, it's more than just the substandard comic violence commonly associated with the Coens.
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