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Overview

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Director:
Writers:
Homer (epic poem "The Odyssey")
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Release Date:
22 December 2000 (USA) more
Tagline:
Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home more
Plot:
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. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 29 nominations more
User Comments:
A great sound, a great look, and a great story. more (805 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
O' Brother (France)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some violence and language.
Runtime:
106 min | 107 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Another possible link comes from the William Faulkner short novel, "Old Man". In it a convict survives an Odyssey like adventure. The "tall convict" in the story is carried away on the flooding Mississippi of 1927 and struggles to return home. At the very end of the story he remembers the only sweetheart he had before being incarcerated and how she stopped visiting him in prison or returning his letters until finally sending him a postcard. "It was a postcard, a colored lithograph of a Birmingham hotel, a childish X inked heavily across one window, the heavy writing on the reverse slanted and primer-like too: This is where were honnymonning at. Your friend (Mrs) Vernon Waldrip." more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the overhead shot of people walking into the river from behind them, the preacher and the person being baptized are deep in a tree shadow. When Delmar emerges some the same place and declares that the "preacher has washed his sins away", the shadow has moved several feet away from the preacher. 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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Movie Connections:
References The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) more
Soundtrack:
In the Highways more

FAQ

Why is the name of this movie "O Brother Where Art Thou?"
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50 out of 66 people found the following comment useful.
A great sound, a great look, and a great story., 13 February 2001
10/10
Author: Mark Sickmiller from Athens, Ohio

I was into the movie right away. I've seen the other Coen movies, with the exception of Raising Arizona, and I've noticed that each of their movies has a color. Fargo is gray/white, Lebowski is bright orange, and this movie is a pleasant yellow.

The bright pleasant qualities of this movie start right away. Soon the look is accompanied by the great, great music. It's the old folk sound, the kind of music that was written during a time when music was enjoyed as a part of day to day life. Enjoyed by everyone, chain-gangs, church choirs, and even prison escapees.

Now, about the prison escapees. I don't know what crime their characters could have possibly committed, as they are a very very friendly group of guys. Clooney is fantastic, completely nailing his role.

Go see this as soon as possible. I believe that it can be enjoyed by anyone at some level. For some reason, the theater I was in was full of old ladies and old men, and they loved it.

You'll love it too, I promise. I was compelled to get my hands on the soundtrack right away.

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