Joel And Ethan Cohen's Film 'Steingo'

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Joel and Ethan Cohen’s sixth film “Fargo” first released in 1996 has not only been able to stand the test of time, but can now be watched as a period piece of sorts as a snapshot into a period of time that was not so long ago, but in retrospect shows us how much has changed in twenty years.
“Fargo” is ironically set in the bleak Minnesota winter (not North Dakota), and revolves around a convoluted kidnapping plot gone terribly wrong. Mousy, sleazy car salesman Jerry Lundergaard (William H. Macy) is financially in over his head after embezzeling money from his father-in-law’s car dealership and his world is about to come crashing in on him. He decides that his best way out is to “fake” the kidnapping of his wife and have his father-in-law (Harve Presnell) pay the ransom for her safe return. He enlists the help of two bumbling career criminals (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to carry out a VERY poorly thought out scheme that unravels as quickly and haphazardly as it was thought of by Jerry.
The heroine, police chief Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand who won an Academy Award for...

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