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O brother, where art thou?  Cover Image DVD DVD

O brother, where art thou?

Summary: Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", this is the story of three convicts--escapees from a prison farm in Mississippi--and their adventure as they travel home in hopes of recovering buried loot before it's lost forever in a flood.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0788826883
  • ISBN: 9780788826887
  • Physical Description: videodisc
    1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : Touchstone Home Video, [2001]
  • Distributor: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Widescreen 2.35:1.
Special features include: Behind-the-scenes featurette; Painting with pixels, the groundbreaking digital production process; script to storyboard to final scene comparisons; I am a man of constant sorrow music video; theatrical trailer.
Formatted Contents Note: Sountrack music -- Title / Composer (Performer): Po Lazarus / arr. Alan Lomax (James Carter & the Prisoners) -- Big rock candy mountain / (Harry McClintock) -- You are my sunshine / Jimmie Davis\Charlie Mitchell (Norman Blake) -- Down to the river to pray / Traditional (Alisoun Krauss) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / arr. Carter Stanley\Dan Tyminski (Soggy Bottom Boys) -- Hard time killing floor blues / Nehemiah "Skip" James (Chris Thomas King) -- Keep on the sunny side / A.P. Carter (The Whites) -- I'll fly away / Albert E. Brumley (Alison Krauss\Gillian Welch) -- Didn't leave nobody but the baby / arr. Alan Lomas\Mrs. Sidney Carter\Gillian Welch\T Bone Burnett (Emmylou Harris\Alison Krauss\Gillian Welch) -- In the highways / Maybelle Carter (Sarah, Hannah and Leah Peasall) -- I am weary (let me rest) / Pete Roberts (The Cox Family) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / arr. Ed Haley (John Hartford) -- O death / Traditional (Ralph Stanley) -- In the jailhouse now / Jimmie Rodgers (The Soggy Bottom Boys) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / arr. Carter Stanley (The Soggy Bottom Boys) -- Indian war whoop / Hoyt Ming (John Hartford) -- Lonesome valley / Traditional (The Fairfield Four) -- Angel band / arr. Ralph Stanley (The Stanley Brothers).
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; film editors, Roderick Jaynes, Tricia Cooke ; music, T. Bone Burnett.
Participant or Performer Note: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Michael Badalucco, Holly Hunter, Stephen Root, Chris Thomas King, Wayne Duvall, Daniel Von Bargen.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and language.
System Details Note:
DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen presentation (2.35:1); DTS 5.1 digital surround sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
Language Note:
English dialogue; optional Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.
Awards Note:
Golden Globe, 2001, Best performance by an actor in a motion picture, Comedy/Musical (George Clooney)
Sierra Award, 2000, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Subject: Homer Film adaptations
Escapes Drama
Depressions 1929 United States Drama
Redemption Drama
Prison films
Buried treasure Drama
Evasiones Teatro
Homer
Redemption
Prison films
Depressions
Escapes
United States
Escapes Drama
Great Depression,1929-1939 Drama
Escapes Drama
Great Depression,1929-1939 Drama
Genre: Motion pictures, British.
Spanish language materials. -- Bilingual.
Feature films.
Feature films -- United States.
Materiales en español -- Bilingüe.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films.
Comedy films.
Drama.
Film adaptations.
Comedy films.
Comedy films.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Road films.
Film adaptations.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Currently available copies

  • 77 out of 91 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
  • 5 out of 5 copies are currently available at Flint River Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 1 out of 1 copy are currently available at Peachtree City Library.

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