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Fargo
Fargo is a 1996 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 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.
Plot
In the bleak midwinter of 1987, Jerry Lundegaard is the executive sales manager at a Minneapolis car dealership owned by his wealthy father-in-law, Wade Gustafson. Jerry is desperate for money, and has embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from the dealership. To solve his financial woes, Jerry concocts a plan to have his own wife Jean kidnapped, intending to extort a hefty ransom from Wade. Jerry approaches Shep Proudfoot, a dealership mechanic and convicted felon currently on parole from Stillwater Correctional Facility. Shep arranges a meeting between Jerry and his Stillwater acquaintance Gaear Grimsrud at a diner in Fargo, North Dakota. Unbeknownst to Shep, Gaear arrives in Fargo accompanied by fellow criminal Carl Showalter, who berates Jerry for showing up an hour late. Carl and Gaear express skepticism and bewilderment at Jerry's scheme but ultimately agree to the kidnapping in exchange for a new Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera and a $40,000 cut of the alleged $80,000 ransom.