O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 adventure comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, and Charles Durning. Set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, the film's story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey.
Literally LOVE this film!!!!! Clooney and Co. are hysterically funny as the bumbling heroes of the piece, caught up in a catalogue of errors as they evade capture after escaping from a chain gang. Everything that can go wrong, does, including being beaten up by a bible salesman for their money, and one of there number being turned into a frog (not really but they really do believe it for a time!) But on the way they also manage to make a hit record and end up being pardoned by the governor.
The story is hysterically funny, but also touching at times (when you realise that the whole thing has been concoted by Clooney to stop his wife marrying someone else), and the de-saturated colours lend themselves really well to the feeling of nostalgia and give the film a timeless feel.
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