O Brother, Where Art Thou? | 
| Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter
Studio: Touchstone
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  636 reviews
Sales Rank: 358
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 106 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936144758
ISBN: 0788826883
UPC: 786936144758
EAN: 9780788826887
ASIN: B00003CXRM
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: June 12, 2001
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Product Description
Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dopper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, The Perfect Storm) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his two chain-mates from the chain gang -- bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro, Summer of Sam) and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson, Hamlet). With nothing to lose and buried loot to regain -- before it's lost forever in a flood -- the three embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this hilarious offbeat road picture. Populated with strange characters, including a blind prophet, sexy sirens and a one-eyed Bible salesman (John Goodman, Coyote Ugly), it's an odyssey filled with chases, close calls, near misses and betrayal that will leave you laughing at every outrageous and surprising twist and turn.
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Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing about hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) into lighting out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly, one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue, and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges's classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American '30s folk styles--blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humor, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like a cross between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --Philip Kemp
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 O'Brother where art thou? July 4, 2009
Diana R. Yazzie (Chinle, Arizona)
I enjoyed this movie and I bought it because I saw it on regular television and enjoyed it.
Totally awesome movie... June 22, 2009
Ladonna L. Spivey (Cotile, LA)
The movie is simply awesome, no other words can describe it. Love it and have watched it twice already since recieving it.
 KKK Service June 19, 2009
Michael Kerjman (The Earth)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nice music-nothing to watch surely if even funny cons on run play the fools of the 30th last century.
Only a Ku Klux Klun ceremony is something educative to me.
 Worst than "Barton Fink" June 14, 2009
Cristian (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
I was in Miami with my wife at the moment in which this movie premiered on theaters at the U.S.A.; and knowing that it has been directed by the talented Coen brothers, rushed to the cinema to see it at once, thinking that we were going to find something close to "FARGO" or "THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE".
Unluckely, 20 or 25 minutes after the beginning of the film, we found ourselves looking at each other, and thinking something like "When will the usually original and funny Coen movie's plot begin?". Well, It never did...
We waited for 10 or 15 fifteen minutes more, and as nothing interesting was yet happening on the big screen, took the decision of leaving the theater, and drove back to our hotel... Perhaps, we still had the chance to catch another movie -anyone would be better than this- on our room's pay per view TV.
By the way, anyone who intends to understand why the Coen brothers gained their fame of being part of today's great American filmakers (like Clint Eastwood, Martin Scosese, Francis Ford Coppola or Aaron Aranofsky), should see (i) the excellent "FARGO" (with Frances Mc Dormand and Willian H, Macy), (ii) the very good "THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE" (with Frances Mc Dormand, Billy Bob Thornton and James Gandolfini) and "BURN AFTER READING" (with Frances Mc Dormand, George Clooney, Brad Pitt and John Malkovich), or (iii) the good "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN" (with Javier Bardem -winner of the best supporting actor's Oscar for this performance-, and Tommy Lee Jones), who won the 2007 best film Oscar, although it should have gone, instead, to Paul Thomas Anderson's much better "THERE WILL BE BLOOD"; absolutely avoiding "BARTON FINK" or this one ("O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?").
"oh brother,where art thou May 29, 2009
David Griffin (Bellflower,Ca)
The dvd was best quality,,the movie is very entertaing for folks who have lineage to the southeast of the U S A .
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