NOTES: This film was made cheaply because the Coen brothers felt bad for all the money The Hudsucker Proxy lost. Ironic that Fargo then went on to win awards and make a hefty profit too!

The location filming had to constantly be moved all over North Dakota, Minnesota and Canade due to the snow melting. Apparently it was a record-breaking mild winter.

The movie states at the beginning that it is based on true events. However, it is not. The statement is part a Coen joke and partly, they say, to make the outrageous behaviour of the characters a little easier to believe.

Bruce Campbell has a hard to spot cameo in Fargo. He is one of the terrible soap opera actors on the fuzzy TV the kidnappers are attempting to watch in the log cabin.

Another Coen brothers Kubrick reference pops up in Fargo. Carl (Buscemi) says to the hooker that he's in town for "just a little of the ol' in and out", a line from A Clockwork Orange.

William H Macy virtually begged the Coen brothers for the role of Jerry Lundergaard. He eventually won them around by telling them, "I'm very, very worried that you are going to screw up this movie by giving this role to someone else. It's my role. I'll shoot your dogs if you don't give it to me."

Norm's primary opposition in the duck stamp competition, The Hautmans, are real-life wildlife artists and acquaintances of the Coen brothers.

Norm "Son of a" Gunderson shares his surname with Clarence "Buzz" Gunderson, the lift operator from The Hudsucker Proxy and Bunnie Lebowski's maiden name in an early draft of the script for The Big Lebowski was also Gunderson, as evidenced by DaFino's (Jon Polito's private Dick) line, "The Gundersons. It's a wandering daughter job. Bunny Lebowski, man. Her real name is Fawn Gunderson. Her parents want her back." By the time the movie was shot the name had changed to Knutsen. ! Are there any more?

Peter Stormare is a keen musician and has a band named Blonde From Fargo. Check them out here.