Summary
It's a bit of a shame the movie isn't more deserving of a wide audience because unlike most offshore productions, director [Jonas Elmer] was not averse to giving some local actors, including Nancy Drake and Hilary Carroll, some speaking roles. In particular, Wayne Nicklas, as [Blanche Gunderson]'s hubby, earns a smile in a stand-out scene in which [Renee Zellweger] fails to notice that silk blouses and freezing temperatures are a potentially embarrassing combination.
Specifically, the movie seeks to reproduce the benign Minnesotan quirkiness so lovingly presented in Joel and Ethan Coen's dark comedy Fargo, which was first on the scene when it came to drawing laughs from those "you-betcha" idioms and affable Minnesotan mannerisms that collectively suggest that cold temperatures have flash-frozen the rudeness and malignance out of northerners' brain cells.See the full content of this document
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Okey-Dokey Overload
Minnesota-set comedy hard to take? Oh yah, you betcha
Well, we'll always have Capote.By that, I'm referring to the fact that Manitobans enjoy a certain refle...See the full content of this document
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