Fargohas been hailed as one of the Coen Brothers' best movies, but their crime masterpiece begins with a lie. The film is set in the wintry and polite community of Minnesota and follows the bloody ...
The Coen brothers introduced the movie 'Fargo' as a true story, but later implied it was fiction. One case that bears a real life resemblance is the brutal 1963 murder of Carol Thompson in St. Paul.