O Brother, Where Art Thou? [2000]

O Brother, Where Art Thou? @IMDB

“Homer’s epic poem “The Odyssey”, set in the deep south during the 1930’s. In it, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them”

Genre: Comedy | Adventure | Crime
Director: Joel Coen
Writers: Homer (epic poem “The Odyssey”), Ethan Coen
Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson

Plot: Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George ‘Babyface’ Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that “the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find.

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