Fargo (1996)

Yes. 88% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 91%.

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha! Wikipedia ↗

Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy crime film written, directed, and produced by Joel and Ethan Coen. The film follows Jerry Lundegaard, played by William H. Macy, a desperate Minneapolis car salesman who hires two criminals — the talkative Carl Showalter played by Steve Buscemi and the silent, menacing Gaear Grimsrud played by Peter Stormare — to kidnap his own wife so he can collect ransom money from his wealthy father-in-law.

When the scheme goes violently wrong during a routine traffic stop, heavily pregnant police chief Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand, investigates the resulting murders with a cheerful, folksy demeanor that belies her sharp investigative mind. Fargo won two Academy Awards — Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens — and earned seven nominations total. Frances McDormand's Marge Gunderson is one of the most beloved characters in American cinema — a woman of extraordinary competence and moral clarity whose "oh ya" Minnesotan niceness coexists with unflinching courage when confronting evil.

William H. Macy's Jerry was an equally masterful creation — a man so pathetically bad at deception that his schemes collapse almost immediately, yet he persists with sweating, stammering desperation. The Coens' trademark black humor was perfectly calibrated, finding comedy in the yawning gap between the criminals' incompetence and the horrific consequences of their actions.

Fargo earned $60 million worldwide on a $7 million budget.