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Release Date
• USA: Dec 22, 2000
• UK: 15 Sep 2000
DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 1, 2003
• R2: 9 Apr 2001
Budget $26,000,000
BoxOffice: $45.2M
Official Website:
O Brother, Where Art Thou? Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for some violence and language.
Running Time
1 hour, 46 minutes
Country UK, France, USA
Production Companies
Buena Vista Pictures, Mike Zoss Productions, Studio Canal, Touchstone Pictures, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films
Studio Buena Vista Pictures
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Other Titles
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• To the White Sea (1999)
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Genre: Crime, Adventure, Comedy, Prison, On The Road, Police, Thieves, Buddies, Surreal
Tagline: They have a plan, but not a clue.
Plot: Joel and Ethan Coen transport Homer's ODYSSEY to the depression-era South in the silly, fun comedy O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson star as three escaped fugitives on the run in Mississippi. Their adventures through the barren landscape includes run-ins with a soothsayer, a trio of Sirens, a Bible-salesman Cyclops, as well as other archetypes from Southern folklore and pop-culture including a young blues musician, the Klan, and bank robber Baby Face Nelson. Soon they are caught up in a vicious gubernatorial campaign that would make Huey Long proud.The Coen brothers mix in a host of cinematic references in O BROTHER, including SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS, COOL HAND LUKE, I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, and even dashes of the Three Stooges. The soundtrack of folk ballads, yodeling traditionals, Delta blues, and prison work songs is outstanding, playing in the background (or foreground) of nearly every scene. Clooney, as the ringleader, displays an effervescent smile that is as intoxicating as the Coens' script is outrageous. The cast, including Holly Hunter, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Chris Thomas King, and Michael Badalucco, is charmingly bewildering in a way that only a Coen brothers' cast can be. Joel and Ethan have done it again,
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| Directed by |
Joel Coen
Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona |
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| Written by |
Ethan Coen
The Big Lebowski, Crimewave, The Naked Man |
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Troy, The Odyssey, Helen of Troy |
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T-Bone Burnett
Walk the Line, Don't Come Knocking, The 76th Annual Academy Awards |
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