Parents Guide for
Fargo (1996) Plus avec IMDbPro »

Two brief scenes include men having sex with prostitutes. Nudity include woman's bare back, behind, and very brief topless nudity. Some explicit movement is seen, but not too graphic. We hear pleasured sounds coming from the men and women.

A nude man is thrown over a couch; he can be seen fully nude from the back (nothing explicit).

The violence in Fargo is not continuous, but when it happens, it is graphic and unflinching.

During the kidnapping, the woman is knocked out when she falls down the stairs.

A police officer is shot in the top of the head, and a large amount of blood spews from the wound, with some of it getting on the face of another man.

A couple are killed after witnessing the cop shooting. After crashing their car(off screen), the man is shot in the back while trying to run away(no blood is shown). The woman is then shot offscreen while pinned in the car.

While having sex, a man is attacked violently. He is kicked on the floor, and then whipped with a belt. Also in this attack, another man is thrown against the wall, and a woman is kicked in the back.

A man is shot in the chest, with the feathers of his down coat flying everywhere(substituting for blood); he then shoots his attacker in the cheek. The bullet grazes him, and blood poors from the wound. He then shoots the other man multiple times offscreen. As the wounded man drives away, he shoots the gate attendant offscreen, but the aftermath is shown with blood on the wall. The wounded man is covered in blood throughout the rest of the movie.

A man is killed with an ax offscreen, and his remains are fed into a woodchipper, with blood covering the snow.

A man is shot in the back of the leg while running from the cops, with a little blood on the wound.

-SPOILERS- Carl is shot by his partner and fed into a wood chipper. This is an extremely graphic scene; we see blood and entrails all over the snow and part of Carl's bloody leg sticking out of the chipper.

80 uses of the word "fuck" and it's derivatives, with a good assortment of milder profanities scattered around.

Some random characters are seen drinking in pubs/bars. One of the kidnappers smokes many cigarettes.

Many intense scenes. One involves a home invasion, kidnapping. Some intense scenes include police search of suspicious criminals, brief car chase, running from peril, shootings, dangerous encounters. A man being shoved into a wood chipper, limb by limb.