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Does Fargo have a happy ending?

Marge doesn't do that kind of stuff: she works hard, takes comfort in her husband and future child, and holds onto her small town values. The movie ends with a corny but sincere vision of happiness and security.
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What happens at the end of Fargo?

Stavros digs up the money and eventually drives to Duluth with his family to start a new life. With a renewed faith in God, he uses the money to build his own supermarket empire.
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What happens to Jerry at the end of Fargo?

The police eventually close in on Jerry, who had the bright idea to steal a car from his own dealership to give to the kidnappers. Jerry ends up getting his wife killed, getting Wade killed, and ruining his son Scotty's life.
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Did anyone find the money from Fargo?

In fact, it's the same snowy field and fence where kidnapper Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) buried close to $1 million in cash for later retrieval. Carl met an untimely demise, but now fans know what happened to that money — Stavros Milos (Oliver Platt) used it on his way to becoming the Supermarket King.
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What is the message of Fargo?

Broadly, Fargo is a film about people using their Minnesota Nice appearances to mask dark feelings and unrest. All of the film's characters are greedy and eager, the only exceptions being Marge and her husband Norm (John Carroll Lynch), at least within the confines of what we're shown of him.
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Fargo - "...And it's a beautiful day"

Why does Fargo always say this is a true story?

“We wanted to make a movie just in the genre of a true story movie," he said. "You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie.” In essence, the Coens wanted to the film to carry the feeling of being a sordid true-crime drama, even if the events being presented never actually happened.
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What is so special about Fargo?

“Fargo” begins with an absolutely dead-on familiarity with smalltown life in the frigid winter landscape of Minnesota and North Dakota. Then it rotates its story through satire, comedy, suspense and violence, until it emerges as one of the best films I've ever seen. Why is Fargo such a celebrated movie?
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Who gave away everything Fargo?

Jeremy's story is told entirely in a parable/flashback as told by Ari to Gus Grimly. He opens the paper one day to see that the world is full of misery. He decides to donate his entire fortune to a children's charity, but he does not think it is enough.
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Why did the guy in Fargo need money?

Apparently, Jerry has hired the men to kidnap his wife in order to get a ransom from his wife's father. Jerry is a fast talker and doesn't want to say much about why he needs the money, but he reveals that his father-in-law is wealthy and that he plans on asking for $80,000 and keeping the other half for himself.
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Why did the guy from Fargo need all that money?

He needed the money to buy that parking lot and become his own man, an equal with his father in law, and a success in the eyes of society. He was so desperate to establish himself as a "serious man", he risked absolutely everything, and lost.
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What did Jerry do with Wade's body?

After his death, Jerry conceals Wade's body in the trunk of his car and drives away with it.
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Why was Marge pregnant in Fargo?

Marge married to Norm Gunderson after meeting on the force with him. Norm decided to quit his job to take up painting and ice fishing and became pregnant with her first child in July 1986.
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Does Jerry ever get his show back?

No reboot for you! Jerry Seinfeld isn't interested in a revival of his beloved sitcom, Seinfeld. Though all nine seasons of the comedy are coming to Netflix on Oct. 1, the show's creator and star isn't looking to return to New York City with Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer.
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Who ends up in the wood chipper at the end of Fargo?

After Marge's catches Gaear stuffing Carl's body into the wood chipper, she arrests him and saves the day (well, sort of, considering how many people are dead), lectures him on the stupidity of committing murder for a little money, and winds up triumphant and safe at home.
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Who was the ghost in Fargo?

As Gaetano runs away from Odis' car, he trips and falls, accidentally discharging his gun and killing himself. Josto flees the scene. Oraetta, intending to kill Ethelrida and get back Donatello's ring, sneaks into her bedroom, but the ghost of Theodore Roach appears and scares her off.
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Why is the wife kidnapped in Fargo?

Even though Jean Lundegaard is technically the focus of the film's crisis, she gets surprisingly short shrift from everybody else. Her husband, Jerry, apparently never considers her wellbeing, and lets her get kidnapped in order to pay off some unknown debt he owes.
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Is Fargo series based on a true story?

However, neither the movie nor the TV show are actually based on true events. In a 2014 interview, the show's executive producer Noah Hawley clarified the "true story" episode introductions by saying "the show.... It's all just made up.
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What did Jerry do with the money in Fargo?

In December 1986, Jerry scammed GMAC by receiving a $320,000 loan (possibly for personal use, or to pay off more debts) for several nonexistent new vehicles by submitting order forms with unreadable VINs.
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Who found the buried money in Fargo?

It is then that he sees the red icepick Carl left to mark the location of his bounty in Fargo the film. Taking this as a sign, Stavros digs it up and is overjoyed to find the money. He returns to his wife with a renewed and fervent faith in God, using the money to build his supermarket empire.
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Do they catch Malvo in Fargo?

Gus then shoots two more bullets into his head which finally kills Malvo. Later, Molly and Gus find tapes in the cabin and they listen to Lester's recorded conversation on the phone confessing to his wife's' murder- finally proving his guilt.
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Is Fargo all connected?

The series premiered on April 15, 2014, on FX, and follows an anthology format, with each season set in a different era and location, with a different story and mostly new characters and cast, although there is minor overlap.
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Why are they all called Fargo?

Even though the movie takes place mostly in Brainerd, Minnesota, the Coen brothers decided to call it Fargo, which is in North Dakota, just because they liked the sound of it for a title better than Brainerd, which "was not cool enough." Fargo is where Jerry Lundegaard meets the two hoods he hires to kidnap his wife.
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Why was it called Fargo?

In fact, the city was named for William G. Fargo, a director of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and co-founder of Wells Fargo Express Company. In the beginning, Fargo was a rough and rowdy frontier town, with its fair share of bordellos and saloons. In 1876, Fargo's population was only 600.
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Why do they speak funny in Fargo?

The accents in the movie Fargo represent a more rural dialect that you won't likely hear much of anymore in urban areas. They come from a combination of Scandinavian, German and Irish dialects from the 19th century. And, any native Minnesotan can most certainly imitate or do their version of the accent on command!
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