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Starring
George Clooney, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, John Turturro, Charles Durning, Tim Blake Nelson

Director
Joel Coen

Year
2000

Genre
Comedy

Synopsis
The Coen boys, as brilliant as ever, take escapees George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro with Holly Hunter and John Goodman on a soul-saving, banjo-strumming odyssey through depression-era Mississippi in this comedy about three escaped convicts.

With their eyes on a $1.2 million prize, they find treasure of a different kind when they make a hit record and cross paths with a one-eyed Bible salesman and crazed gangster Babyface Nelson. Based on Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey", the Coens were nominated for two Oscars. The soundtrack alone is a valid reason to watch this excellent film.

TRIVIA:
The title is taken from the title of the film the director wants to make in Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941); George Clooney agreed to do this film without having read the script; the cabin in the valley before it is flooded is a replica of the cabin from Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981); the scene where Ulysses, Pete and Delmar come upon the KKK meeting is a reference to the scene in The Wizard of Oz (1939) when the Tin Man, Scarecrow and Lion sneak up on the Witch's castle.

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