When Jerry Lundegaard, tired of scrounging for scraps and grinding as a failed car/undercoat salesman, decides to stage a kidnap and ransom of his wife to gain access to his father-in-law’s money and the mild mannered mid-westerner ends ends up in league with a violently pragmatic criminal cohort.
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Everett, Pete, and Delmar aren’t just down on their luck during the Great Depression. They are chained together in a chain gang, till they break free in an attempt to find buried treasure that is.
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Ed Crane, a small town barber, has never made a splash in the world or even taken a big risk in his life but when a venture capitalist proposes a partnership he throws caution to the wind to blackmail his wife’s married lover to raise the money to finally get his slice of the pie.
Read MoreInside Llewyn Davis (2013)
Flopping couch to couch, getting underpaid to perform in bars, and hitchhiking to Chicago may seem like the romantic life of a legendary singer but it’s just a week in the life for LLewyn Davis in 1961, New York City.
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