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O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2001)

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TWANGS FOR THE MEMORIES Turturro, Nelson, and Clooney, unfortunately, are unable to escape from Southern cliches

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Release Date: Jan 12, 2001; Rated: PG-13; Video Release Date: Jun 12, 2001; Genre: Comedy; With: George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro; Distributor: Touchstone Pictures

By Bruce Fretts

''O Coen Brothers, where art thou?'' you may ask during the bumpy first half of the ''Blood Simple'' masterminds' broad as a barn-door retake on Homer's ''Odyssey,'' O Brother, Where Art Thou? Transmogrified into a picaresque tale of three Depression-era chain gang escapees (George Clooney, John Turturro, and Tim Blake Nelson), the script initially seems like a string of toothless Southern caricatures. But fine turns by ''Raising Arizona'' alums Holly Hunter and John Goodman -- and T-Bone Burnett's old-timey soundtrack -- eventually vivify the movie.

Posted Jun 12, 2001

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