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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2 Disc Special Edition) [2000] [DVD]
enlarge	Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter Studio: Momentum Pictures Category: DVD List Price: ~~£19.99~~ Buy Used: £2.16 as of 21/11/2009 06:46 GMT details You Save: £17.83 (89%) New (15) Used (11) from £2.16 Seller: honeybeartraderltd Rating: 64 reviews Sales Rank: 1587 Format: Anamorphic, Box set, PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over Region: 2 Discs: 2 Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Number Of Discs: 2 Running Time: 103 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 EAN: 5060035200146 ASIN: B00005QX8O Theatrical Release Date: December 22, 2000 Release Date: November 5, 2001 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days


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Editorial Reviews: Amazon.co.uk Review Only Joel and Ethan Coen, masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plotline of Homer's IOdyssey/I for IO Brother, Where Art Thou?/I, their 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 for 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) to light 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. IO Brother/I (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges' classic 1941 comedy ISullivan's Travels/I) 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 humour, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like something between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical. --IPhilip Kemp/IpbOn the DVD:/b This two-disc set duplicates the original single-disc release of the film which included a handful of cast and crew interviews, and adds an additional disc with more interviews, two brief behind-the-scenes featurettes about the production design and the post-production digital colouring of the film, a couple of storyboard-to-scene comparisons and a music video of "Man of Constant Sorrow". There's also a 16-minute documentary to promote the companion iDown from the Mountain/i concert. Frankly there's not a lot here to justify spreading it across two discs: a more pleasing not to say generous offering would have been to cram all these extras onto Disc 1 and give us iDown from the Mountain/I as the second disc. --iMark Walker/I

Customer Reviews: Showing reviews 1-5 of 64 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...13 Next » Beautiful and mythical April 16, 2006 David Welsh (Oslo, Norway) 16 out of 17 found this review helpful Loosely based on the Odyssey, O Brother, Where Art Thou tells the story of three petty criminals who have escaped prison in order to claim a haul of treasure before it ends up at the bottom of a lake which is about to be created by the building of a new dam, and the many sidetracks and adventures they encounter on the way. Clooney is brilliant as Ulysses Everett McGill and the film's soundtrack is wonderful - beautifully evoking the depression-era America in which the film is set. A hilarious, beautifully shot and mythical film. Best film I've seen for ages April 7, 2006 18 out of 20 found this review helpful I'm not film enthusiast, and had never even heard of this one until I saw it on the listing for my 9 hour flight home from India. Flipping through the channels, the music made me stop at this one. Usually I have a hard time staying awake for a whole film on a night flight, but I just loved this film - so much so that I watched it all again 4 hours later, in preference to any of the others on offer. I have never, ever watched a film twice in one day before! I definitely want the soundtrack. A maelstrom of mirth and music July 8, 2006 T. Bobley (UK) 21 out of 24 found this review helpful It's a long time since I read Homer's Odyssey, so perhaps it's not surprising that I can't remember seeing any of this story in that story - well, hardly any. There's the blind seer, the sirens, the Cyclops, Pete seeming to be changed into a frog (the sort of trick Circe liked to pull), the fact that Everett's first name is Ulysses and his wife's name is Penny (Penelope), and a temporary associate of the boys attacks a herd of cattle ... . So, a few points of contact with The Odyssey, but it really only fits where it touches. But who cares? This is a brilliant film. Best I've seen in ages. I don't know why it's taken me so long to get round to watching it - probably put off by the title. Silly me. I loved The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona - all fantastic Coen Bros films with dopey sounding titles. I should have just trusted them and watched this film years ago. To make up for lost time I watched it 3 times in the first week I had the DVD and kept skipping back to the beginning of the parts where The Soggy Bottom Boys sang "Man of Constant Sorrow". Fabulous music. And the dialogue is so clever, especially when you consider that the protagonists are more than slightly gormless - and they still give the impression of being idiots even whilst delivering these sparkling lines. Great comic acting. Great acting regardless of category, in fact. Another Coen master piece! br / Under-rated Gem January 5, 2004 12 out of 14 found this review helpful 'We thought you was a toad'pFirstly, forget everything you've heard about this film being based on Homer's Odyssey - that's one of the Coen brother's famous red herrings (like the one about Fargo being based on a true story). This movie picks up where Preston Sturges' 'Sullivan's Travels' left off; (Sullivan's Travels is about a film director who wants to make a socially responsible film called 'Oh Brother Where Art Thou', but after an episode on a chain gang decides that comedy is an equally valid art form).pWe follow the exploits of three chain gang escapees of differing stupidity as they seek some buried treasure. Hot on their heels are the KKK, a one eyed bible salesman (John Goodman)and the Warden of the chain gang - the very devil incarnate.pThis movie is FUN -It's Clooney's best performance to date and has Goodman and John Turturro on top form as well. A lot of people under-rate this film, but for sheer smile-on-your-face, feel-good, toe-tapping entertainment there are few better.pBuy it, watch it, then watch Sullivan's Travels and this miserable world begins to make a little sense. Oh Brother April 21, 2006 Ms. K. Kendall (uk) 16 out of 19 found this review helpful Fab film bit slow to start but gains speed, so much so that my mum couldn't leave the room. br / br /The music is fab all them catching, toes tapping! br / br /The subtitles are great and let you sing along with the music, great for hard of hearing or deaf to follow. Showing reviews 1-5 of 64 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...13 Next »

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