Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
Comedy
| Adventure
| Crime
DVD, 106 minutes
Country:
UK
| France
| USA
Director:
Joel Coen
| Ethan Coen
Writer:
Homer
| Ethan Coen
| Joel Coen
Producer:
Tim Bevan
| John Cameron
| Ethan Coen
| Eric Fellner
| Robert Graf
| Joel Coen
Music:
T-Bone Burnett
Plot outline
Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", set in the deep south during the 1930's. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Cast
- 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
- Billy W. Blackwell
- Ron Block
- Dan Braun
- Jerry Douglas
- Christopher Francis
- Geoffrey Gould
- Emily D. Haley
- Nathaniel Lee Jr.
- Mark Munson
- Andy Sims
- Shayne Tingle
- Dan Tyminski
- Leon Walls
Plots
- Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." Written by Armin Ortmann
- Mississippi, 1937. Three convicts escape from a jail chain-gang intent on getting to the loot stashed away by one of them. As this is at his house soon to be flooded by a new dam, speed is of the essence. They find themselves fast-talking their way out of one jam after another, and along the way not only have to be wary of riverside sirens but even get to make a pretty good country record. Written by Jeremy Perkins
- Everrett Ullysus McGill, sick of breaking rocks in the heat of a Mississippi summer, escapes with his two dim accomplices, Delmar and Pete. Trying to reclaim a buried treasure before its lost forever underneath a lake, the three make their way to Everett's homestead. Along the way, they meet a conniving one-eyed Bible salesman, a blind prophet, a trio of sexy sirens, and a man who sold his soul to the devil. In their race to reach the treasure before it's flooded, they end up crashing a Ku Klux Klan lynch mob, help a sensitive Baby-Face Nelson rob three banks in two hours, and even have enough time to put out a best selling record as "The Soggy Bottom Boys." Written by Molly