O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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Category: Comedy
All Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music
Release Year: 2000
Country: USA, UK, France
Runtime: 107
Rating: 6.9 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Joel CoenEthan Coen
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital, SDDS
Taglines: They have a plan, but not a clue.
Writing by: Homer - (epic poem "The Odyssey")
Ethan Coen - (written by) &
Joel Coen - (written by)
Produced by: Tim Bevan - executive producer
John Cameron - co-producer
Ethan Coen - producer
Eric Fellner - executive producer
Robert Graf - associate producer
Joel Coen - producer (uncredited)
Cast: George Clooney - Everett
John Turturro - Pete
Tim Blake Nelson - Delmar
John Goodman - Big Dan Teague
Holly Hunter - Penny
Chris Thomas King - Tommy Johnson
Charles Durning - Pappy ODaniel
Del Pentecost - Junior ODaniel
Michael Badalucco - George Nelson
J.R. Horne - Pappys Staff
Brian Reddy - Pappys Staff
Music: T-Bone Burnett
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: Homers epic poem "The Odyssey", set in the deep south during the 1930s. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Plot: Loosely based on Homers Odyssey the movie deals with the grotesque 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, bankrobber 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."
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
The credit for Alan J. Schoolcraft, the president of operations for Mike Zoss Productions, is all in Spanish: "El Encargado de Mike Zoss Productions"
Goofs: We know about 42 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: The people singing along with "You Are My Sunshine" near the end are clearly a few beats off. Their clapping syncs up but theyre singing a different line.
Trivia: There are 35 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- The title is taken from the title of the film the director wants to make in Preston Sturges Sullivans Travels (1941).
- George Clooney agreed to do this film without having read the script.
- The whole film was graded digitally on computer. The negative was scanned in with a Spirit Datacine at 2K resolution and then colors were digitally fine-tuned. The process took several weeks. The resulting digital master was output on film again with a Kodak laser recorder to create a print master. It was the first time this had been done for a whole film in Hollywood (but not in other countries).
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