O brother, where art thou?
2000
DVD
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey", three escaped chain gang convicts have to travel home to try and recover buried loot from a bank heist. Along the way they meet up with some strange characters.
Item Details
ISBN: 0788826883
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
Target Audience Note: CHVR: PG.
Notes:
- Inspired by Homer's "Odyssey".
- For specific added features see container or interactive features menu while viewing disc.
- Originally released as a motion picture.
- Director of photography, Roger Deakins ; film editors, Roderick Jaynes, Tricia Cooke ; music by T. Bone Burnett ; costume designer, Mary Zophres ; production designer, Dennis Gassner.
- George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Michael Badalucco, Holly Hunter.
- DVD ; DTS ; Dolby Digital sound (5.1, surround) ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation.
- For private home use only.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- Includes audio tracks in English with subtitles in Spanish.
- Golden Globe, 2001, Best performance by an actor in a motion picture, Comedy/Musical (George Clooney)
- Sierra Award, 2000, Best Cinematography (Roger Deakins)
- Academy Awards, 2000: Best Screenplay (nomination)
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 21654
- 21654
Control Number: 522515
UPC:
- 786936144758
- 786936144758
Subjects:
- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States -- Drama.
- Escapes -- Drama.
- Homer. Odyssey -- Film adaptations.
- Homer. Odyssey -- Television adaptations.
- Redemption -- Drama.
Genre:
- Action and adventure films.
- Comedy films.
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Films for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings.
Other Authors:
- Buena Vista Home Entertainment (Firm)
- Burnett, T-Bone.
- Clooney, George.
- Coen, Ethan.
- Coen, Joel.
- Cooke, Tricia, 1965-
- Deakins, Roger A., 1949-
- Durning, Charles, 1923-2012.
- Gassner, Dennis.
- Goodman, John, 1952-
- Homer. Odyssey.
- Hunter, Holly, 1958-
- Jaynes, Roderick.
- Nelson, Tim Blake.
- Studio Canal+.
- Touchstone Home Video (Firm)
- Turturro, John, 1957-
- Universal Pictures Corporation.
- Working Title Films.
- Zophres, Mary.