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Fargo snow, lake-cabin summers and Prince's Minneapolis — Minnesota pairs niceness with noir. Its stories chill from Twin Cities stages to northern woods.
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Browse 139 books, 90 movies, 4 TV shows and 2 games set in Minnesota.

Fargo
Jerry a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law.…

Rio
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind but…

Clouds
Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time he follows his dream and makes an album unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.

Juno
Faced with an unplanned pregnancy sixteen year old high-schooler Juno MacGuff makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child.

Fargo
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

Big Time Rush
Four teenage friends move from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to form a potential chart-topping boy band after Kendall is inadvertently discovered by an eccentric record executive, Gustavo Rocque. As they seize this…

Jennifer's Body
Jennifer a gorgeous seductive cheerleader takes evil to a whole new level after she's possessed by a sinister demon. Now it's up to her best friend to stop Jennifer's reign of terror before it's too late.

Little House on the Prairie
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

A Serious Man
It is 1967 and Larry Gopnik a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy…

A Simple Plan
Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane.…
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