| O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| George Clooney |
Everett
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| John Turturro |
Pete
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| Tim Blake Nelson |
Delmar
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| John Goodman |
Big Dan Teague
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| Holly Hunter |
Penny
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| Chris Thomas King |
Tommy Johnson
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| Charles Durning |
Pappy O'Daniel
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| Del Pentecost |
Junior O'Daniel
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| Michael Badalucco |
George Nelson
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| J.R. Horne |
Pappy's Staff
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| Clooney |
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| Turturro |
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| Blake |
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| Plot |
| Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing about hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) into lighting out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly, one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue, and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges's classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American '30s folk styles--blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humor, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like a cross between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --Philip Kemp |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Adventure; Comedy; Crime; Music |
| Director |
Ethan Coen; Joel Coen |
| Producer |
Ethan Coen |
| Writer |
Homer; Ethan Coen; Joel Coen |
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| Studio |
Disney / Buena Vista |
| Country |
UK
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Running Time |
106 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
12/22/2000 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
776 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
8/29/2006 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 2.35:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
786936144758 |
| Chapters |
24 |
| Release Date |
6/12/2001 |
| Subtitles |
French |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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Exclusive Behing-The-Scenes Featurette
"Painting With Pixels," The Groundbreaking Digital Post-Production Process
Script To Storyboard To Final Scene Comparisons
"I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" Music Video
Animated Menus
Theatrical Trailer
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