TY - BOOK AU - Coen, Joel. AU - Nelson, John. AU - Goodman Holly AU - Hunter Chris AU - John Turturro AU - Thomas King AU - Tim Blake AU - George Clooney TI - O Brother, Where Art Thou? AV - DVD 000077 PY - 2000/// CY - UK, France, USA PB - Touchstone Pictures KW - Adventure KW - Crime KW - Music KW - Comedy N1 - Three stumblebum convicts escape to go on a quest for treasure and meet various characters while learning where their real fortune lies set in 1930s Deep South; Homer N2 - 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 Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber 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."" UR - http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0190590/ ER -