North Dakota's movie is...

Fargo

Alright, we admit it. Very little of the Coen brothers’ Oscar-winning film Fargo actually takes place in Fargo, North Dakota. (Much of it was filmed in Minnesota, dontcha know?) Even if erroneously, the 1996 neo-noir put the state on the map like no other film, and like it or not, that Minnesota accent will forever be associated with the border city of Fargo. Frances McDormand stars as Marge Gunderson, the pregnant chief of police in Brainerd, Minnesota hot on the trail of two murderous ex-cons (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) wreaking interstate havoc thanks to the botched kidnapping of the wife of a put-upon car salesman (William H. Macy). In true Coen fashion, Fargo delivers the blackest of humor and the quirkiest of characters, punctuating the stark, snowy landscape with flashes of ultra violence – because there’s nothing like a body in a wood chipper to jazz up those slow Midwestern winters.