O brother, where art thou?

DVD - 2001

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.

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Subjects
Genres
Comedy films
Feature films
Action and adventure films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Video [2001]
Language
English
Spanish
Corporate Authors
Studio Canal+, Working Title Films
Corporate Authors
Studio Canal+ (production company), Working Title Films
Other Authors
Joel Coen (screenwriter), Ethan Coen (actor), George Clooney (-), John Turturro, 1957-, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, 1923-2012, John Goodman, 1952-, Michael Badalucco, 1954-, Holly Hunter, 1958-, Stephen Root, Chris Thomas King, Homer
Item Description
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
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.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Playing Time
01:43:00
Format
DVD, region 1, NTSC, dual layer, widescreen presentation (2.35:1); DTS 5.1 digital surround sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.
Audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violence and language.
Awards
Golden Globe, 2001, Best performance by an actor in a motion picture, Comedy/Musical (George Clooney)
Sierra Award, 2000, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
Production Credits
Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; film editors, Roderick Jaynes, Tricia Cooke ; music, T. Bone Burnett.
ISBN
9780788826887
  • 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).