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Fargo | 1996 | R | - 5.7.8
A man hires thugs to kidnap his wife in order to get ransom money from his wealthy father-in-law; but things go horribly wrong.
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A man has sex with prostitutes in two scenes. As one prostitute flees down a hallway we glimpse naked buttocks.
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VIOLENCE/GORE 7 - A handful of deaths by bullets. We see blood a couple of times (once a gush of blood from a pointblank head shot). We see a corpse's bloody face a couple of times, a woman tries to flee her kidnappers and falls down steps, a man is shot in the jaw (the result is a great deal of blood), a man is hit with an ax and then fed into a wood chipper (we see sprays of blood and his foot sticking out).
LANGUAGE 8 - 25+ F-words, some scatological references and a handful of mild obscenities.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - In-laws, greed, kidnapping and murder.
MESSAGE - Greed can lead to horrible consequences.
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