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Must have DVD for your collection!
Let me just say God Bless the Coen brothers. These two guys from Minnesota have given us some of the most original and funny movies of the last 20 years. After releasing a modern day classic with "THE BIG LEBOWSKI", the Coens then gave us the depression era comedy "O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?". With the Coens you never know what to expect, but you know it will always be a well made movie that gets better with repeat viewings. This movie ranks in the Coens top 3 behind "FARGO", and just ahead of "RAISING ARIZONA". The movie has top notch performances from John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Charles Durning, and if you ask me a very Oscar worthy turn by George Clooney. One of the Coen brothers great talents is too paint a great picture of when and where the story is taking place, and this movie falls right in line. Set in the heart of the Mississippi during the depression, Clooney and his partners in crime travel thru absolutely beautiful delta land in search of their goal. Just watching it makes me want to sip on an ice cold lemonade, no kiddin'. The film transfer and colors are excellent on this release. Basicly, you've got a great movie with great performances, but this all actually takes a back seat to the best part of the movie, the music. Leave it up to the Coens to bring roots music back to the to the attention of music fans everywhere. The music is great, fits right in with the story, and the sound on this disc is perfect. Definetly no complaints with the movie, a must see. The disc includes a cool but not long enough featurette, post production process, the Soggy Bottom Boys music video, theatrical trailer, and a very interesting script to storyboard feature. My only wishes were maybe some deleted scenes, and the ever elusive Coen brothers commentary track. Neither of which appear on this disc, but hey, I can't complain with the overall quality of this movie and disc. This will make a great addition to any collection. Enjoy movie and DVD fans.

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A Rare Triumph in Comedic Film
The Cohen brothers are gaing a reputation as a duo that has a nack for producing films that are both solid and funny. O' Brother Where Art Thou?, does not fall short st all. It is a very funny romp and the Acamedy thought so too. O' Brother Where Art Thou?, was nominated for two Acamedy awards and robbed of both. It was nominated for Best Screenplay and Best Cinemotography.

The story follows three prisioners that become disenchanted by the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prision farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) heads up the jail break. The problem is that they are still shackeled together from when they were in a chain gang- bad tempered Pete (John Turturro) and sweet, dim-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson). With nothing to loose and a buried loot to gain-before it's lost forever in a flood-the three embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this hillariuos offbeat road comedy. Populated with quirky characters (as seen in the Cohen brothers othe masterpiece Fargo), including a blind prophet, sexy sirens, and a one-eyed Bible salesmen (Johm Goodman), it's an odyssey filled with chases, close calls, near misses, and betrayel that should be missed by anyone. O' Brother Where Art Thou? will leave you laughing at every outragous and suprising plot twist this film has to offer.

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the best clooney film ever
this is very very loosely based on homers odyssey.you ever hear of this?most people havent.4 dumber than a box of hammers criminals escape from a chaingang to go get a bunch of money one of them stole previously.it is a movie the whole family can enjoy filled with high adventure and many exciting scenes.it is set in 1939.there are a pack of sirens-i call them (...) this one but no fornicating.george clooney gives his best performance ever in this one.it was the best movie in a long time when it came out.an abselute classic.no matter what you hear,this is one of the best films in years.georges ol lady in the movie is a real psycho (...) but is FINE!