O Brother Where Art Thou Summary
MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Joel Coen
Genres: Comedy, Crime
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The writing, directing, and producing team of Joel_Coen and Ethan_Coen created this picaresque comedy (inspired in part by Homer's The Odyssey) set in the Deep South during the Depression. Suave and fancy-talking Everett Ulysses McGill (George_Clooney), dim-witted Delmar (Tim_Blake_Nelson), and easily-excitable Pete (John_Turturro) are serving time together on a prison chain gang. Everett knows where 1.2 million is hidden that's theirs for the taking, and the three manage to escape; however, a stranger soon warns them that they'll find treasure, but not the sort they're looking for. As Everett and his partners hit the road, they happen upon a gluttonous bible salesman, Big Dan Teague (John_Goodman); meet up with Baby Face Nelson (Michael_Badalucco) as he robs a bank; encounter three Sirens doing their washing; run into Everett's estranged wife Penny (Holly_Hunter), who has told everyone her husband was killed in a train wreck; find themselves in the middle of a heated campaign between political boss Pappy O'Daniel (Charles_Durning), and reformist candidate Homer Stokes (Wayne_Duvall); and even find time to make a hit record as The Soggy Bottom Boys. Noted songwriter T-Bone Burnett helped compile the songs (combining vintage country blues tunes with originals in the same style), while Carter_Burwell composed the background score. Incidentally, the title O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a reference to the classic Preston_Sturges comedy Sullivan's_Travels, in which a director plans to make a serious "message picture" with that name. Mark Deming, Rovi
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