Four star

YOU'RE in debt up to your eyeballs so what do you do?

Well, you could pay two insane men to kidnap your rich wife and hold her to ransom for a cool £1 million.

That's what desperate car sales executive Jerry Lundegaard plans to get him out of trouble.

What he didn't plan was the two kidnappers, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare, going on a killing rampage after an unfortunate meeting with a state trooper.

Step in heavily pregnant Brainerd police chief Marge Gunderson, played by Frances McDormand, who comes to investigate.

The film was written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen who say it was based on a true kidnap story and it was nominated for seven Oscars - but picked up just two.

The dialogue for this movie, set in the American wilderness, is hilarious but some of the violent scenes are pretty gory, leaving you in a no man's land where you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Try and lay your hands on a special edition copy which includes all the usual stuff as well as an exclusive interview with the Coen brothers and documentary Minnesota Nice.

MS