Loosely based on Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ the movie deals with the grotesque 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, bankrobber 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.”

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • Rating: (123,448 votes)
  • Taglines:Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home » They have a plan, but not a clue. »
  • Runtime:106 minutes
  • Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
  • Countries:UK, France, USA
  • Actors:
    Everett
    George Clooney
    Pete
    John Turturro
    Delmar
    Tim Blake Nelson
    Big Dan Teague
    John Goodman
    Penny
    Holly Hunter
    Tommy Johnson
    Chris Thomas King
    Pappy O'Daniel
    Charles Durning
    Junior O'Daniel
    Del Pentecost
    George Nelson
    Michael Badalucco
    Pappy's Staff
    J.R. Horne
  • Genres:Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Music
  • Producers:
    Tim Bevan
    executive producer  
    John Cameron
    co-producer  
    Ethan Coen
    producer  
    Eric Fellner
    executive producer  
    Robert Graf
    associate producer  
    Joel Coen
    producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: 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." Written by Armin Ortmann <armin@sfb288.math.tu-berlin.de>
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • User's comment:Travelling to Sullivans country by Per Lundblad

    This was the best film I saw in the year 2000. The Cohen brothers have never let me down before, and they certainly didn't this time either.

    It's one of those rare movies these days - it's witty, intelligent and vastly entertaining. I left the cinema with a warmth in my heart. Of course, there's lot of Cohen stuff in there - odd characters and peculiar gadgets, well-developed plot and magic camerawork. But no Cohen film is resembling any other Cohen film, if you overlook the general quality of them, of course.

    The big surprise for me was that Clooney is so good. But the true master performance in this movie comes from Tim Blake-Nelson. But the rest of the cast is superb too.

    A film that is lightweight comedy with a musical touch that evolve it's story round rednecks and old time country music - dripping with wit and intelligence. Thats a very unlikely combination. But it's exactly what this picture is.


  • Quotes: George Nelson: Cows! I hate cows worse than coppers! Delmar O'Donnell: Oh, George... not the livestock. Ulysses Everett McGill: Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent.
  • Also known as: Dónde estás, hermano? (Argentina), Dónde estás, hermano? (Peru - imdb display title), ¿Dónde estás, hermano? (Mexico - imdb display title), Ó, testvér, merre visz az utad? (Hungary - imdb display title), Ahi, Eifo Ata? (Israel - Hebrew title), Bracie, gdzie jestes? (Poland), E Aí, Meu Irmão, Cadê Você? (Brazil), Fratello, dove sei? (Italy), Irmão, Onde Estás? (Portugal), Nerdesin be birader? (Turkey - Turkish title), O Brother! (Spain), O Brother, Where Art Thou? - Eine Mississippi-Odyssee (Germany), O adelfe, pou eisai? (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), O brate, gde si? (Serbia - imdb display title), O' Brother (France), Oh, Brother! (Japan - English title), Tko je ovdje lud? (Croatia - imdb display title), Voi veljet, missä lienet? (Finland),

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