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| FILM DETAILS | | Certificate 12 | | Cast
George Clooney
John Turturro
Tim Blake Nelson
Charles Durning
John Goodman
Michael Badalucco
Holly Hunter | | Directors
Joel Coen | | Screenwriters
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Ethan Cohen | | Running Time
107 minutes |
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Among the Coens most purely pleasurable films. The nearest thing to a real feelgood musical the movies have pulled off in years.
Plot
The Coen brothers splice Homer's Odyssey with Preston Sturges and Depression era America and come up with a road movie-cum-screwball comedy.
Verdict
With their annual output now as eagerly anticipated as that of Woody Allen, the Coen brothers are cinema's most precious gift: unbending auteurs and cultural magpies, who find poetry in tins of hair-wax and livestock marooned on rooftops. Cherish them.
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