''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. Transmogrified into a picaresque tale of three Depression-era chain-gang escapees (Clooney, 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.
EW's GRADE
BDetails Release Date: Jun 12, 2001; Movie Rated: PG-13; Genre: Comedy; With: George Clooney, Tim Blake Nelson and John Turturro; Distributor: Touchstone Pictures
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