In front of a mirror which displays her image in three panels, she reddens her cheeks and finally responds: "Who is it?" When his patience has been tried o the breaking point, she opens the door and coyly flirts with him:Julie: Why Pres! Bangin"" on a ladies"" door.When he rises to leave, he lightly places his hand on Laura""s cloth-coated shoulder and then departs.Macy is superb as the desperate, wretched and incompetent car salesman and hapless husband, who is pathetically in debt, and sets the uncontrollable chain of events into motion with an ill-fated plan to have his wife kidnapped and ransomed by extorting his wealthy father-in-lawFrances McDormand, appearing a third of the way into the film, perfectly portrays the astute, level-headed, warm-hearted (even in the frozen clime), persevering, smarter-than-she-appears pregnant local Chief of Police (supplemented with her loving relationship with her husband)Its critical and box-office success also came with seven Academy Awards nominations, including Best Supporting Actor (William H.This was the first film (of four) to be a spin-off of the animated seriesBatman(1992-1994) (inspired by the Tim Burton films).