O Brother, Where Art Thou? [Blu-ray]

Description

George Clooney (The Perfect Storm) and John Turturro (Cars
2)embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this hilarious, offbeat road
picture. And now, for the first time, this quirky gem shines more brightly
than ever in Blu-ray High Definition! Fed up with crushing rocks on a prison
farm in Mississippi, the dapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill
(Clooney) busts loose…except he’s still shackled to two misfits from his
chain gang: bad-tempered Pete (Turturro), and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim
Blake Nelson). With nothing to lose and buried loot to regain, the three
embark on a riotous odyssey filled with chases, close calls, near misses and
betrayal. Experience every unpredictable moment as it plays out in the
crystal-clear sound and breathtaking picture quality of Blu-ray. Populated
with strange characters, including a blind prophet, sexy sirens, and a one-
eyed Bible salesman (John Goodman), O Brother, Where Art Thou? will leave you
laughing at every outrageous and surprising twist and turn Only
Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house
hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-
stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer’s Odyssey for
a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our
wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued
wise guy with a thing about hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up
his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular
John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) into lighting out after some
buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic
blind man on a railroad truck, a burly, one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent
John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who’s sold his
soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-
depressive bank robber, and–well, you get the idea. Into this, their most
relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential
situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue, and a whole stash of
gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title’s lifted from Preston
Sturges’s classic 1941 comedy Sullivan’s Travels) is furthermore graced with
glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack
from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American ’30s folk styles–
blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and more. And just to prove that the brothers
haven’t lost their knack for bad-taste humor, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally
choreographed like a cross between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley
musical. –Philip Kemp

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Comedy
• Format: Blu-ray, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Contributor: Wayne Duvall, Daniel Von Bargen, Ed Gale, Ray McKinnon, Brian Reddy, Del Pentecost, Joel Coen, Chris Thomas King, Michael Badalucco, J.R. Horne, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, Ethan Coen, George Clooney, John Turturro, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Roger Deakins See more
• Language: English, Spanish
• Runtime: 1 hour and 47 minutes
• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 Ounces
• Audio Description: ‏ : ‎ French
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ Relay time: 107min
• Director ‏ : ‎ Joel Coen, Roger Deakins
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 47 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ September 13, 2011