If you like Coen brothers movies, maybe it is time to check out this flick,
their directorial debut. Also the first major film of cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld, who later became a noted director(Men in Black, Wild Wild West, Turok). You might see some similarities with this movie and The Man Who Wasn’t There, a later Coen flick. Of course as in almost every Coen movie Frances McDormand is starring with the help of some very talented actors. After Julian Marty finds out that his wife is cheating on him with his employee, he decides to kill her. Eventually unable to perform the task himself, he hires a private investigator, to do the dirty deed. But when you have combination of murder and large sums of money, something is bound to go wrong for someone… I just loved the overstated tension and those uncomfortable scenes that seem so fucked up. Again we have, pretty much, ordinary people caught in some strange situations and the director made sure that we feel connected to the characters on the screen. I know that the movie is a bit older, but still it reeks of quality and after all it is not some science fiction flick were the effects look ridiculous after a few decades. Enjoy.
Director: Joel Coen
Cast: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams
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Fun Stuff: Holly Hunter had auditioned for the role of Abby, but turned it down because she was performing a play in New York at the same time. So she encouraged her roommate Frances McDormand to go and audition for the role.
