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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
starring: Michael Badalucco, George Clooney, Frank Collison, Charles Durning, Wayne Duvall

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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: CLOONEY,GEORGE
EAN: 9780788826887
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788826883
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Touchstone
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 12, 2001
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 573
Studio: Touchstone
Theatrical Release Date: 2000

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Product Description:
Three convicts escape the chain gang to find a stolen treasure, but end up having a series of strange adventures.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 2-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD

Amazon.com:
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

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
A good comidy movie. Setting is during the depression days and more than enough miss haps occur to this prisoner escape-es. Good bluegrass style music completes this enjoyable story as they escape one problem just to land into another.

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- Coen Brothers: Film # 8
I don't think there is a single thing I can add to the reviews on this film that has not already been said. For the sake that I intended on saying something about each of the Coen Brother's films, I just have to say something however.

Yes, I agree. This film is a perfect, I do mean perfect, film experience. Not only do the Coen Brother's (and cinematographer Roger Deakins) bring us into the Dust Bowl era, they unintentionally bring us a piece which works as a complication for the entire ... Read More

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- An entertaining, milder Coen Bros. film
I mean "milder" in the sense that it's not nearly as violent or profane as some of their other work--not that I necessarily have a problem with either of the latter as long as it's necessary to the story. That's all.
Anyway...Apparently, the brothers based this screenplay on Homer's The Odyssey, and that makes me wish I had actually read it because then I would have a fuller understanding of what's going on.
Still, I enjoyed the weirdness and unexpected events--the sirens in the water, the ... Read More

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- My All-Time Favorite Movie
I loved everything about this movie: The music, the backdrop, the acting (I'm not a fan of George Clooney, especially after he ruined Batman, but his acting here is phenomenal, IMO), the script, the humor, the plot... everything is perfect.

It is, basically, an updated version of Homer's Odyssey, but it also contains more then enough differences to be completely separate from Homer's Odyssey, the main one being that the movie has nothing Supernatural about it (except maybe "The Devil," but ... Read More

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- A terrific film!
I love this film! Love the story ( a "modern" day version of the Odyssey!), the acting and the wonderful music! Spedtacular music!

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