Rated PG-13
106 minutes
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
July 30, 2004 at 8:00pm in 26-100 and
July 31, 2004 at 8:00pm in 26-100.
Loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' the movie deals with the grotesque
adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in
1930s Mississippi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's
home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a
series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber
George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning
Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns
the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
Written and directed by the Coen brothers.
"A joyous mixture of the absurd and the sublime."
      -- Scott Weinberg, EFILMCRITIC.COM. Read this review.
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