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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Working Title Films

Mike Zoss Productions

France

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English

George Clooney

John Turturro

Tim Blake Nelson

John Goodman

Holly Hunter

Chris Thomas King

Charles Durning

Del Pentecost

Michael Badalucco

J.R. Horne

Brian Reddy

Wayne Duvall

Ed Gale

Ray McKinnon

Daniel von Bargen

Royce D. Applegate

Frank Collison

Quinn Gasaway

Lee Weaver

Millford Fortenberry

Stephen Root

John Locke

Gillian Welch

A. Ray Ratliff

Mia Tate

Musetta Vander

Christy Taylor

April Hardcastle

Michael W. Finnell

Georgia Rae Rainer

Marianna Breland

Lindsey Miller

Natalie Shedd

John McConnell

Issac Freeman

Wilson Waters Jr.

Robert Hamlett

Willard Cox

Evelyn Cox

Suzanne Cox

Sidney Cox

Buck White

Sharon White

Cheryl White

Ed Snodderly

David Holt

Tricia Cooke

Dennis Gassner

T Bone Burnett

Joel Coen

Ellen Chenoweth

Ethan Coen

Roger Deakins

Allan Zaleski

Jennifer Lamb

Sean Garnhart

Greg Orloff

Melinda Sue Gordon

Richard L. Johnson

Nancy Haigh

Eric Fellner

Tim Bevan

John Cameron

Mary Zophres

Eugene Gearty

Skip Lievsay

Peter Chesney

Robert Graf

Thomas Johnston

Peter Kurland

Cha Blevins

Gilly Ruben

James Brown

Philip Stockton

Frank Kern

Ritchie Kremer

Ian Silverstein

Will Ralston

Kam Chan

Kenton Jakub

Fred Rosenberg

Paul Urmson

Glenfield Payne

Paul LeBlanc

Karyn Huston

Amy Schmiederer

Jean Ann Black

Roy Bryson

Barbara Sanders

Glenn Kleczkowski

Mitch Lillian

Homer

Julian Levi

Julian Tomlin

David Weiss

Betsy Magruder

Jonathan McGarry

Carter Burwell

Clinton Dougherty

Jane Frazer

Michelle Wright

Jery Hewitt

David Diliberto

Karyn Anon

Greg Thompson

Marco Rubeo

Randall Balsmeyer

Louise Spencer

Benedict Fitzgerald

Andy Harris

Adam Gilmore

Kyle Rudolph

Mark O'Kane

Josh Blakeslee

Steve Bowerman

Mark Zimbicki

Knox White

J. Todd Anderson

Mark Weissenfluh

Paige Augustine

Leslie 'Tinker' Linville

James P. Meehan

Ron Patterson

Denise Stiff

Jon E. Salzman

Alan Frazier

Jeremy Knaster

Craig A. Brink

Joe Grimaldi

David Diamond

Niles McElroy

Bruce Hamme

Charlie Marroquin

Charley Gilleran

Michael A. McFadden

_**Amusing rural Mississippi odyssey in the 30s**_

During the Depression, three guys escape a chain gang in Mississippi (George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro) to experience many misadventures with a blind prophet, a gifted musician (Chris Thomas King), a radio station, baby-face Nelson (Michael Badalucco), baptism in a river, “sirens,” a one-eyed Bible salesmen (John Goodman), an ex-wife (Holly Hunter), the KKK, corrupt politicians and an area with hidden treasure about to be flooded. 

A Coen brothers film, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000) is a farcical odyssey taking place in the Deep South of the 1930s. The cast is entertaining, which also includes the likes of Daniel von Bargen. It’s quirky and amusing augmented by its setting and locations, not to mention one of my wife’s favorite movies (possibly because Clooney was in his prime). In ways, it’s like “Deliverance” (1972) if it were a comedy, just mixed with “Cool Hand Luke” (1967) and a dash of Homer’s Odyssey. 

I like it, but don’t love it; it’s fun, no doubt, but also kinda forgettable. Yet the song “I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow” is well done and catchy.  

The film runs 1 hour, 47 minutes, and was shot mostly in Mississippi, plus some stuff done at Universal Studios.

GRADE: B-

Andre Gonzales

Weird convicts that escape. With no money they try to find treasure. Has some weird comedy as well. Good cast though.

CinemaSerf

Having just escaped from a chain gang, the eloquent “Everett” (George Clooney) and the two men who share his chain - “Pete” (John Turturro) and the not so bright “Delmar” (Tim Blake Nelson) set off on a journey to find his $1.2 millions in treasure buried in the ground in an area designated to be flooded to generate hydro-electric power. First things first, they have to get the chains off and that’s just the start of their escapades as they meet some of the eccentric folks that live in 1930s Mississippi. Along the way they encounter the mad-as-cheese bank robber “Babyface” Nelson (Michael Badalucco), distinctly dodgy bible salesman “Big Dan” (John Goodman); they meet travelling minstrel “Tommy” (Chris Thomas King) and he helps them to make a record for a blind radio host and they even manage to meet with some very tempting ladies doing their laundry on ricks in a stream! The whole thing is very, and I mean very, loosely based on Homer’s post Trojan war “Odyssey” and if you’re familiar with that text, then you can just about see the narrative as the story proceeds and certainly when you look back on it. If you don’t, well it doesn’t matter at all - this is still a comedy-laden and sharply written take on three people motivated by money in the first instance, but who come to realise that there is more to life than a dollar bill. It also transfers the ancient scenario quite entertainingly, politically, too - taking a fun pop at the gubernatorial race between an hopeless but exuberant incumbent flour merchant and the red-robed leader of the local branch of the KKK, and it also presents us with some toe-tappers from three men who work well together on a road-trip with a difference. This is probably my favourite outing for Clooney as he delivers some of his almost Homerian dialogue with charming sarcastic wit and skill. It’s enjoyable, this, and well worth a cinema viewing if you can.

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