O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Set in the deep south during the 1930s, three convicts escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a supposed treasure Everett buried while a relentless lawman pursues them.
28 February 1923, Highland Falls, New York, USA
25 December 1939, Midwest City, Oklahoma, USA
28 May 1956, Warren, Ohio, USA
20 December 1954, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
11 May 1964, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
November 18, 2016
The Coen's O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a Coen odyssey reworked as a tall tale in the folk song idiom of superstition, magic realism and religious mysticism and delivered with a mix of screwball goofiness and intellectual whimsy.December 29, 2011
Everyone who has the capacity for abstract thought, raise your hands . . . and take this Coen brothers' journey.September 26, 2002
The Coens' usual arch deliberateness isn't quite as deliberate, and there's an appealing shagginess to some of the episodes and performances.December 26, 2010
Teens might enjoy this offbeat Odyssey adaptation.January 12, 2001
Leaves a sour taste.January 26, 2006
Great dialogue, superb 'Scope camerawork from Roger Deakins, and a genuinely wondrous deus ex machina are among the delights.January 12, 2001
A roller-coaster ride with a goofy fun-house spirit, it's full of clever pranks.February 06, 2001
It's a wild, whacked-out wonder.May 09, 2012
Well up to the brothers' usual high standards.September 04, 2010
May not be the funniest or wackiest movie from Joel and Ethan Coen, but it is easily their most ambitious work to date.November 07, 2007
After making what are still probably their two best features, the Coen brothers came up with their worst, a piece of pop nihilism.September 26, 2011
Even with its mock-pretentious parallelism to The Odyssey...O Brother, Where Art Thou? refuses to take itself seriously, which is both its principal failing and its charm. [Blu-ray]