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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Actors: Michael Badalucco, George Clooney, Frank Collison, Charles Durning, and Wayne Duvall
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Retail Price (not our price): $19.99
Release Date: 2001-06-12
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Studio: Touchstone
Run Time: 103 minutes
Format: Array
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Discs: 1


Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
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

2) Description
Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, THE PERFECT STORM) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his own 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.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5

1) O Brother, Where Art Thou?   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
This is a great movie. I never heard of it hitting the big screen, but caught it on PPV or HBO. I had to buy it. The "Old timey" Music is surprisingly catchy.A great addition to any DVD collection.

2) classic   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Saw this before .. Had to have it in our collection. It has to be added to the classics. Original and just fun. Music is great fun also. You really just have to see it.

3) Where indeed?   [Rating: 1 out of 5]
I am a Coen bros fan who own all their available DVDs, I love Bluegrass and country musics and even played it for 10 years. Thus when I heard of this movie at the time I couldn't have been more excited: among my favorite directors and music, that's going to be great! WRONG! Dead wrong!This movie is everything the Coen movies are not. Instead of the brothers' usual dark and witty corkiness, we are treated with jokes so juvenile it rivals such classic as "Dumb and Dumber". Instead of their habitual pinpoint accurate and fascinating depiction of a particular area, culture, social class, or population segment, we are immersed in some of the worst clichés about the South I have ever seen in recent times(Southerners are dirty, racist, retarded, and "cultishly" religious. Are we still really at that level of stupid bias). Instead of a solid yet with unexpeted twist and turns scenario, we get a storyline that meanders around nothing and goes literally nowhere (and spare me the parallels with The Odyssey, which merely consist in having a guy with an eye-patch and some deadly girls charming the protagonists). And what the heck were these guys thinking when they cast Clooney, with one of the worst bogus Southern accent that Hollywood ever had the balls to insult us with!?! The two positives about this movie to me was the stunning cinematography and art direction, and the gut wrenching music. The movie recently came up on late TV and I figured I gave it another chance... I am sorry to say that this remain my biggest cinematographic disappointment.

4) Good movie   [Rating: 4 out of 5]
I say this as someone who doesn't like George Clooney movies. He always seems to play the same guy and I don't like that guy. This movie, on the other hand, shows why he's considered a great actor. I've only recently seen it and I had to get the dvd. It's darn funny and the music is pretty good too.

5) O DEATH   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Reluctantly, I watched this movie. George Clooney never impressed me before but he got my attention with this one. Had fun traveling with the boys on their adventures and the fact that they knew nothing of their fame until 'Man Of Constant Sorrow' was sung live. The fact that music won out over bigotry. What a great message. Fellas, my hats off to you and. I recommend this movie