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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.8
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Metascore: 69/100
Reviews: 831 user | 199 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com 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. Director:Joel Coen |
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Sheriff Cooley
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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 <armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
22 December 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$26,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$195,104 (USA) (29 December 2000)Gross:
$45,506,619 (USA) (3 August 2001)Company Credits
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Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
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(1915)
Written by William Tyers
Performed by Pat Rebillot (as Pat Rebillo)
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Trivia
The film soundtrack's official website ran a trivia contest to promote the film, giving winners canisters of Dapper Dan pomade. See more »Goofs
In the opening scene, two long strings of prisoners are chained together and hammering at large white rocks on either side of a remote dirt road in a flat field. The rocks and workers have obviously have been brought to that remote location, but there's no earthly reason why those rocks should be lining the road the way we see them. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ulysses Everett McGill: Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?
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Crazy Credits
The credit for Alan J. Schoolcraft, the president of operations for Mike Zoss Productions, is all in Spanish: "El Encargado de Mike Zoss Productions" See more »Soundtracks
"Admiration"(1915)
Written by William Tyers
Performed by Pat Rebillot (as Pat Rebillo)
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Not being a fan of the Coen Brothers or George Clooney, anyone can see the skepticism I took into the theater. Once again, someone in Hollywood dares to create something different. This time it was those zanie (for a temporary lack of a better word) Coens doing "their thing" to one of the great works in literary history. Who would've ever thought Homer had this in mind? I don't know where this film is going to fit in the history books of Hollywood, but it will be in both mine and many others DVD or VHS library. It is one of those films that you can watch over and over. The story is brilliantly written. Clean and entertaining, with a couple of Gumpesque brushes with fame, great performances by Clooney, Turturro, Nelson, and a brief but hilarious Holly Hunter. Being born in Mississippi and raised in other parts of the south, I wish more people would poke a little fun at us like this. They even invoke a soundtrack fitting for the rural south. You are NOT doing anything better this weekend, go see this movie!