O Brother, Where Art Thou? (DVD)
2 Academy Award Nominations, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography
“The Best Film of The Year” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks at a prison farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) busts loose. Except he is 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 is lost forever in a flood – the three embark in an 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.