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| Director: | Joel Coen |
| Studio: | Walt Disney Video |
| Producer: | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Eric Fellner |
| Writer: | Homer, Ethan Coen |
| Rating: | 4.5 |
| Rated: | PG-13 |
| Date Added: | 2007-03-06 |
| Purchased On: | 2007-06-03 |
| ASIN: | B00003CXRM |
| UPC: | 0786936144758 |
| Price: | $19.99 |
| Awards: | Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 29 nominations |
| Genre: | Comic Action |
| Release: | 2001-12-06 |
| IMDb: | 0190590 |
| Duration: | 102 |
| Picture Format: | Widescreen |
| Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 |
| Sound: | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Languages: | English, DTS, English, Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles: | English, Spanish |
| Features: | Exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette
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Comments: They have a plan, but not a clue.
Summary: 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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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
(2000)
UK