Rent O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
3.9 of 5 from 273 ratings
1h 43min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, the-dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) busts loose. Except he's still shackled to his two chain-mates from the chain gang - bad-tempered Pete (John Turturro) and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson). 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), 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. - Actors:
- George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Chris Thomas King, Charles Durning, Del Pentecost, Michael Badalucco, J.R. Horne, Brian Reddy, Wayne Duvall, Ed Gale, Ray McKinnon, Daniel Von Bargen
- Directors:
- Joel Coen
- Producers:
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Writers:
- Homer, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
- Others:
- T-Bone Burnett, Roger Deakins, Dennis Gassner, Carter Burwell
- Studio:
- E1 Entertainment
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Comedy
- Collections:
- A History of Cinemas in Films, Behind Bars: Visit These Essential Prison Films, Best Film Quests and Adventures, Cinema Paradiso's 2023 Centenary Club: Part 1, Films & TV by topic, Films by Genre, Films to Watch If You Like..., The Best American Road Movies, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Barnyard Bird Films, Top 10 Titles About the Golden Age of Radio, Top Films, What to Watch Next If You Liked Nomadland
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 12/08/2013
- Run Time:
- 107 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese DTS 5.1, English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, French DTS 5.1, German DTS 5.1, Italian DTS 5.1, Spanish DTS 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Dutch, English Hard of Hearing, Flemish, German, Italian, Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (4) of O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Brilliant - O Brother, Where Art Thou? review by AH
This is an ingenious and very funny film. I've watched it three times now and it is definitely one of my all time favourites, though I feel it goes a little soggy towards the end. The narrative is supposedly inspired by Homer's Odyssey. It begins as a tale of three amigos who are joined midway by a fourth, but at the end of the film it seems to have morphed into a story about just one of the amigos – what's happened to the others? Arguably, the last few minutes are supposed to be some sort of tangential coda but I suspect that the concept hadn't been fully thought through. Nevertheless, it's very amusing: classic lines, memorable images, typically wacky Coen brothers' characters and a wonderfully earthy traditional country music soundtrack.
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Quirky Coen Brothers Comedy - O Brother, Where Art Thou? review by GI
The Coen Brother homage to Homer's Odyssey on which this is very loosely based. It's a comedy adventure where three criminals escape from a chain gang in depression era USA. George Clooney is Ulysses Everett McGill who is desperate to escape for personal reasons. Being chained to Pete (John Turturro) and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) he has to convince them to come along. Chased by a relentless lawman, who fans will recognise as a big homage to Cool Hand Luke (1967) they encounter a host of bizarre and strange characters including John Goodman as a 'cyclops' and along the way they make a record for money which becomes a big hit. It's all bizarre, brilliant and good fun as they deal with the Ku Klux Klan, three seductive women and Baby Face Nelson (who hates his nickname!). Holly Hunter pops up too and there's a fantastic soundtrack by T. Bone Burnett including Man Of Constant Sorrow, which became a big hit. This is another Coen Brothers film that takes you in unexpected directions and never fails to keep you watching although it occasionally seems to drag as if it's head to be stretched to feature length but there's a quirky originality to the film that makes it worth checking out.
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Down home on the Farm. Penal farm - O Brother, Where Art Thou? review by NC
Forget the old Bogart and Tony Curtis running-away-in-stripped-longjohns..........the 3 guys work so well together. Clever, funny, and some actual philosophy amongst it all.
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