| | | A film by the Coen Brothers, the Academy Award-winning creators of Fargo!
Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1)
Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) escapes the chain gang with two fellow convicts, the simple and somewhat slow Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and ill-tempered Pete (John Turturro), to pursue the promise of hidden loot stashed in his house that is about to be swept away in a flood. On the way, the trio experience a journey filled with hilarious adventure and a cast of strange characters – starting with a blind prophet who warns them that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
"Clooney (has) never radiated more star quality..." Richard Corliss, TIme Magazine
"...thoroughly eclectic and always entertaining..." BBC Online
"...a live-wire star turn from George Clooney..." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"The best film of the year!" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"...rambunctious and inspired..." A.O. Scott, The New York Times
Editor's Note
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, crafting this time a unique film steeped in the traditions of the South--and of Hollywood itself.
| Features | Widescreen Version Enhanced For 16x9 TVs | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Script/Storyboard/Final Scene Comparisons: The Flood, The Klan | | Theatrical Trailer | | 5.1 Surround & DTS 5.1 Digital Surround | | Featurette "Painting With Pixels"--The Ground-Breaking Digital Post Production Process | | Music Video "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrows" | | Interviews With The Coen Brothers And Major Cast Members |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista Home Video |
| Release Date: 8/15/2008 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 21654 | | UPC: 00786936144758 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (2001) | | | Roger Deakins, Nominee, Best Cinematography | | | Ethan & Joel Coen, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay Based On Material From Another Medium | |
British Academy Awards (2001) | | | Roger Deakins, Nominee, Best Cinematography | | | Ethan & Joel Coen, Nominee, Best Original Screenplay | |
Cannes Film Festival (2000) | | | Joel Coen, Nominee, Golden Palm | |
Golden Globe (2001) |  | George Clooney, Winner, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture-Comedy/Musical |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...[A] remarkable achievement..." 12/01/2000 pp.36-38Premiere
"...Very funny [moments]. O BROTHER is replete with such stuff..." 01/01/2001 p.23 Los Angeles Times
"...O BROTHER is rife with the kinds of genial madness only writer-director Joel and writer-producer Ethan can come up with....By enlivening things to an unprecedented extent, the songs turn O BROTHER into perhaps the warmest production in the Coens' repertoire..." 12/22/2000 p.C12 James Berardinelli's ReelViews 7 of 10
...As atypical as any movie currently available in a theater, O Brother, Where Art Thou? offers musical numbers, car chases, shootouts, magical realism, natural disasters, and more Dapper Dan hair care product than anyone could possibly want. The film has its share of standout sequences.
San Francisco Examiner 9 of 10
...O Brother, Where Art Thou? is an epic, an enormous story about insignificant people exploring the world in the middle of nowhere. It's also the best movie this year. - Jeffrey M. Anderson
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