America's Top Sleuths (2006)

Actors: Pierce Brosnan (actor), Chevy Chase (actor), Peter Falk (actor), Dennis Franz (actor), Jack Klugman (actor), Leslie Nielsen (actor), Jerry Orbach (actor), Richard Roundtree (actor), Tom Selleck (actor), Farrah Fawcett (actress), Kate Jackson (actress), Angela Lansbury (actress), Frances McDormand (actress), Jaclyn Smith (actress), Stephanie Zimbalist (actress),

Genres: Biography, Documentary,

Fargo (2003)

Actors: Edie Falco (actress), Kathy Bates (director), Robert Joy (actor), Matt Malloy (actor), George Folsey Jr. (producer), Neale Joudrie (miscellaneous crew), Kim Goddard-Rains (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Paltrow (producer), Bruce Paltrow (writer), Bruce Bohne (actor), Geoffrey Nauffts (actor), Rondi Reed (actress), Rebecca McFarland (actress), Lisa LaCroix (actress), Robert Palm (producer),

Plot: Marge Gunderson, the still pregnant police chief of Brainerd, Minnesota, investigates the murder of a town pharmacist, shot in a snowy parking lot by a stranger who was helping jump his car battery. Meantime, an old man dies of exposure in his ice fishing house, leading one of his sons to kidnap the body. Snow, snow, everywhere.

Keywords: minnesota
Genres: Crime,

Fargo (1996)

Actors: Carter Burwell (composer), Ethan Coen (producer), Tim Bevan (producer), Joel Coen (writer), Peter Stormare (actor), Joel Coen (producer), Frances McDormand (actress), William H. Macy (actor), Ethan Coen (writer), Eric Fellner (producer), Steve Buscemi (actor), John Carroll Lynch (actor), Bruce Campbell (actor), Joel Coen (director), Ethan Coen (director),

Plot: Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.

Keywords: 1980s, accountant, airport, alienated-sexuality, alienation, anger, arrest, artist, assault, auto-mechanic
Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller,
Taglines: A homespun murder story. Small town. Big crime. Dead cold. A lot can happen in the middle of nowhere. An ordinary place, an extraordinary thriller

Quotes:

Carl Showalter: [voice] Three people were killed last night in Brainerd. We're in a load of trouble, Jerry. I'm comin' there tomorrow. You have the money ready by then.::Jerry Lundegaard: [into the phone] Now, we had a deal. A deal's a deal.::Carl Showalter: [voice] Is it, Jerry? Why don't you ask those three poor souls in Brainerd if a deal's a deal? Go ahead, ask them!::Jerry Lundegaard: [into the phone] The heck do ya mean?::Carl Showalter: [mimicking Jerry mockingly] "The heckya mean?" I'll call you tomorrow! [hangs up]

[repeated line]::Jerry Lundegaard: The heck do ya mean?

Jerry Lundegaard: [answering the phone] Jerry Lundegaard.::Carl Showalter: [voice over the phone] Alright, Jerry, you got the phone to yourself? Are you alone?::Jerry Lundegaard: [into the phone] Well, yeah.::Carl Showalter: [voice] You know who this is?::Jerry Lundegaard: Well, yeah, I got an idea. How's that Ciera working out for ya?::Carl Showalter: [voice] Circumstances have changed, Jerry.::Jerry Lundegaard: Well, what do ya mean?::Carl Showalter: [voice] Things have changed, circumstances, Jerry... force majeure, acts of God.::Jerry Lundegaard: How's Jean?::Carl Showalter: [puzzled] Who's Jean?::Jerry Lundegaard: My wife! What the-?::Carl Showalter: [voice] Oh... right. She's alright, but there's a few people in Brainerd who aren't so okay, I'll tell you that.::Jerry Lundegaard: What the heck are ya talking about? Let's just finish this deal up here.::Carl Showalter: [voice] Blood has been shed, Jerry.::Jerry Lundegaard: What the heck do ya mean?::Carl Showalter: [voice] Three people, in Brainerd... are dead.::Jerry Lundegaard: Oh, jeez!::Carl Showalter: [voice] That's right, we need more money.::Jerry Lundegaard: What the heck are ya talking about? What do you fellas have yourself mixed up in?::Carl Showalter: [voice] Never mind that. We need more money...::Jerry Lundegaard: [interrupting] This was supposed to be a no rough stuff type deal!::Carl Showalter: [angry] DON'T EVER INTERRUPT ME, JERRY! JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!::Jerry Lundegaard: Well, I'm sorry, but I just... I don't...::Carl Showalter: [voice] I'm not gonna debate with you on this, Jerry! I'm not gonna debate! Three people in Brainerd were killed last night. We now want the entire 80,000!::Jerry Lundegaard: Oh, for chris'sake here!

[Jean is making noise in the back of the car]::Gaear Grimsrud: Shut the fuck up! Or I'll throw you back in the trunk, you know?::Carl Showalter: Jesus, that's more than I've heard you say all week.

Jerry Lundegaard: I told ya. We haven't had any vehicles go missing.::Marge Gunderson: Okay! But are ya sure? 'Cause I mean, how do you know? Do you do a count, or what kind of a routine do you have here?::Jerry Lundegaard: [growing uncomfortable with this questioning] Ma'am, I answered your question!::Marge Gunderson: [long pause] I'm sorry, sir?::Jerry Lundegaard: Ma'am, I answered your question! I answered the darned... I'm cooperatin' here!::Marge Gunderson: Sir, you have no call to get snippy with me! I'm just doing my job here.::Jerry Lundegaard: I'm... I'm not arguing here! I'm cooperating. So there's no need to... we're doin' all we can here.::Marge Gunderson: Sir, could I talk to Mr. Gustafson?::[Jerry gives her a glassy-eyed look, knowing full well that Gustafson is dead]::Marge Gunderson: Mr. Lundegaard?

Mr. Mohra: So, I'm tendin' bar there at Ecklund and Swedlin's last Tuesday, and this little guy's drinkin' and he says, "So where can a guy find some action? I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake." And I says, "What kinda action?" and he says, "Woman action, what do I look like?" And I says, "Well, what do I look like? I don't arrange that kinda thing," and he says, "But I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake," and I says, "Well, this ain't that kinda place."::Officer Olson: Uh-huh.::Mr. Mohra: So he angrily says, "Oh I get it, so you think I'm some kinda crazy jerk for askin'!" only he doesn't use the word "jerk."::Officer Olson: I understand.::Mr. Mohra: And then he calls me a jerk, and says that the last guy who thought he was a jerk is dead now. So I don't say nothin' and he says, "What do ya think about that?" So I says, "Well, that don't sound like too good a deal for him, then."::Officer Olson: [chuckles] Ya got that right.::Mr. Mohra: And he says, "Yah, that guy's dead, and I don't mean of old age." And then he just pays his tab and walks out saying, "Geez, I'm goin' crazy out there at the lake!"::Officer Olson: White Bear Lake?::Mr. Mohra: Well... Ecklund & Swedlin's, that's closer ta Moose Lake, so I made that assumption.::Officer Olson: Oh sure.::Mr. Mohra: So, ya know, he's drinkin', so I don't think a whole great deal of it, but Mrs. Mohra heard about the homicides down here last week and she thought I should call it in. So... I called it in. End o' story.::Officer Olson: What'd this guy look like, anyway?::Mr. Mohra: Oh, he was a little guy... Kinda funny lookin'.::Officer Olson: Uh-huh. In what way?::Mr. Mohra: Oh, just in a general kinda way.

Marge Gunderson: [reporting over her police radio] There's the car! There's the car!::Lou: What car?::Marge Gunderson: My car, my car! Tan Ciera, tan Ciera!

[first lines]::Jerry Lundegaard: I'm, uh, Jerry Lundegaard.::Carl Showalter: You're Jerry Lundegaard?::Jerry Lundegaard: Ya. Shep Proudfoot said...::Carl Showalter: Shep said you'd be here at 7:30. What gives, man?::Jerry Lundegaard: Shep said 8:30.::Carl Showalter: We've been sitting here an hour. He's::[motioning to Gaer]::Carl Showalter: peed three times already.::Jerry Lundegaard: I'm sure sorry. Shep told me 8:30. It was a mix-up, I guess.

[last lines]::Norm Gunderson: [rubbing Margie's pregnant stomach] Two more months.::Marge Gunderson: [smiling] Two more months.

Carl Showalter: You know, it's proven that second-hand smoke is, uh, carcin-... uh, you know, cancer related.