Fargo
Directed by: Joel Coen
Friday, August 21 - Saturday, August 22, 2009
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, FARGO took noir to a place no one had dared take it before — North Dakota. When hapless car salesman Jerry Lundergaard (William H. Macy) needs cash fast, he very rationally hires two thugs, Carl and Gaear (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife and hold her hostage until her wealthy father pays the ransom… but, naturally, murder, misanthropy, and creative use of wood chippers ensue. With Frances McDormand as the pregnant sheriff and the Midwest itself as the iciest and most banal of hells. Part of the series “The Coen Brothers,” playing select weekends at midnights, July 24-September 12, 2009 in our ongoing Waverly Midnights program.
R, 98 MinutesMGM, USA, 1996
