The ersatz Coen flick, The Big White, has the dramatis personae, a similar wintry setting and much the same the plot as the Coens' most popular picture, Fargo. A failing businessman in Alaska (Robin Williams) with a mentally disturbed wife tries to save his firm through an insurance scam. This brings him into conflict with a pair of comic hitmen and makes him the target of a determined detective. Giovanni Ribisi is rather good as the claims investigator, but the picture is never funny, only occasionally exciting and not very convincing. Its British director has been responsible for some good TV work (e.g. Shameless, Cold Feet, The Royle Family) as well as the dire movie Ali G Indahouse. His name, Mark Mylod, sounds to me like the answer learned counsel might give to a judge who asked him: 'And what is this second gospel to which you refer?'