Fargo (1996)
Filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen casually rewrite the rules of the investigative thriller about once a decade (see: 1984's Blood Simple, 2007's No Country for Old Men). In this bloody yet nervously funny tale of a kidnapping gone horribly awry, the Coens create a detective for the ages in small-town police chief Marge Gunderson (Oscar-winner Frances McDormand), whose dogged but cheerful pursuit of the conspirators (William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, and Peter Stormare) makes her perhaps the most well-adjusted, least neurotic detective in movie history.
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