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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) 7.8
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7.8/10 from 152,977 users
Metascore: 69/100
Reviews: 831 user | 199 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. Director:Joel Coen |
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Pete Hogwallop
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Delmar O'Donnell
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Del Pentecost | ... | |
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Sheriff Cooley
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Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's 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 "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and 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:
Dónde estás, hermano? See more »Box Office
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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George Clooney practiced his singing for weeks, but in the end his singing voice was dubbed by country blues singer Dan Tyminski. See more »Goofs
The closing scene shows a modern railroad track structure with welded rail joints that were not in common usage until after the 1960s. 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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This was the best film I saw in the year 2000. The Cohen brothers have never let me down before, and they certainly didn't this time either.
It's one of those rare movies these days - it's witty, intelligent and vastly entertaining. I left the cinema with a warmth in my heart. Of course, there's lot of Cohen stuff in there - odd characters and peculiar gadgets, well-developed plot and magic camerawork. But no Cohen film is resembling any other Cohen film, if you overlook the general quality of them, of course.
The big surprise for me was that Clooney is so good. But the true master performance in this movie comes from Tim Blake-Nelson. But the rest of the cast is superb too.
A film that is lightweight comedy with a musical touch that evolve it's story round rednecks and old time country music - dripping with wit and intelligence. Thats a very unlikely combination. But it's exactly what this picture is.