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...There's also a bad reason for it; she's doing her best to deny--or at least minimize--her highly inconvenient condition. It is more than Manny, patient and practical as she is, can cope with. What these kids need is a surrogate mom. So they decide to kidnap...
...Laurel (Aleksa Palladino), according to convention hereafter referred to as "Manny" and "Lo," survive through shoplifting, house-breaking-and-sleeping-in, and the liberal use of their deceased mother's station wagon. When Lo gets undeniably pregnant, the spunky pair adds a bigger crime to their misdemeanors and kidnap a staid ex-nurse (Mary Kay Place) incongruously behind the counter at one of those sickeningly precious baby supplies stores. They then hole up at an abandoned country house. Barring some frenzied running around at the end, most of the film takes place there amidst woodsy surroundings (where, inexplicably, a seemingly...
...means Sheriff Charles Phipps and his deputy. Since April 1, 1994, when the Clarks first retreated to their farms, later to be joined by fugitives from other areas, the Freemen have posted $1 million bounties on the heads of Phipps, county attorney Nick Murnion and local bankers, threatened to kidnap and hang local judges, and put phony liens on the property of anyone who got in their way. Prosecutors say they used one bogus money order in a failed attempt to buy $1.4 million in arms and ammunition...
...arrests came a day after a meeting at the Freemen's compound at which Schweitzer outlined a plan to kidnap local officials. It was captured on a videotape broadcast last week by abc's Prime Time Live. "We're going to have a standing order," said Schweitzer. "Anyone obstructing justice, the order is shoot to kill." The first attempt to arraign the two men at the Billings federal courthouse ended in chaos when they shouted demands for a "change of venue" to their own Justus Township court. Two days later, U.S. Magistrate Richard Anderson tried again, but had to enter...
Jerry Lundegaard (Willaim H. Macy) is a car salesman in trouble and in debt. As his wealthy father in-law won't knowingly help, Jerry decides to kidnap the in-law's daughter, his own wife. He expects the ransom money will solve most of his problems. This twisted idea is emblematic of the moral decay that contaminates many characters in "Fargo...