Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
- salesclerk
- unsociability
- police
- cheating
- ransom
- winter
- kidnapping
- minnesota
- dark comedy
- north dakota
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Frances McDormand
Marge Gunderson
William H. Macy
Jerry Lundegaard
Steve Buscemi
Carl Showalter
Peter Stormare
Gaear Grimsrud
- Harve Presnell — Wade Gustafson
- John Carroll Lynch — Norm Gunderson
- Kristin Rudrüd — Jean Lundegaard
- Bruce Bohne — Lou
- Steve Reevis — Shep Proudfoot
- Steve Park — Mike Yanagita
- Gary Houston — Irate Customer
- Sally Wingert — Irate Customer's Wife
- Larissa Kokernot — Hooker #1
- Melissa Peterman — Hooker #2
- Tony Denman — Scotty Lundegaard
- Directed
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Written
- Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 9,335 ratings
- Studio
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
