Karmer is right boh of the ' No country for old men' are Minnesotans and they are brothers. Joel and Ethan are good producers
Joel and Ethan Coen were born in Minnesota to academic parents. The brothers were raised in a typical middle-American, middle-class Jewish household. Their childhood was largely unremarkable and aside from the production of a few super-8 home movies, a future in filmmaking seemed unlikely (Ethan's book of short stories entitled Gates Of Eden contains pseudo-biographical, though 'fictional', narratives of the Coens' upbringing). (2) Joel proceeded to New York University where, in lieu anything better, he enrolled in a film course. Ethan, on the other hand, ventured to Princeton; choosing Philosophy as his major, he composed a thesis on Wittgenstein.