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Frances McDormand won an Oscar for her turn as pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson -- a serious sleuth who's sharper than her folksy accent suggests -- in this Coen brothers black comedy that also earned the siblings a nod for Best Screenplay. William H. Macy co-stars as a car dealer who conspires with hotheaded kidnappers (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife (Kristin Rudrüd) so he can pocket part of the hefty ransom.

At the request of a damsel in distress (Helen Mack), noble cowboy Ken Maynard agrees to look out for the woman's younger brother (Paul Fix) by giving him some honest work on the ranch. But when the boy bets Maynard's money in a crooked poker game and loses it all, a blackmailer (Roy Stewart) cons the impressionable youth into robbing the Fargo Express stagecoach. Can Maynard convince the sheriff (William Desmond) that the boy was double-crossed?

When Joey (Lisa Ryder) and her bumbling cohorts Avery (Christopher Healey) and Creed (James Gatto) kidnap the daughter of celebrity self-help guru Robert Buchanan (Randy Hughson) in a bid to extort his millions, the plan backfires when Joey takes the heist into her own hands. Co-starring Gary Farmer as Agent Whitaker, this quirky thriller won Best Canadian Feature at the 1998 Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival.