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| gross = $71.9 million<ref name="gross">{{cite web| title=O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)| website=[[Box Office Mojo]]| url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=obrotherwhereartthou.htm| access-date=January 8, 2008| archive-date=November 16, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116022010/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=obrotherwhereartthou.htm| url-status=live}}</ref>
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'''''O Brother, Where Art Thou?''''' is a 2000
The film is set in rural [[Mississippi]] in 1937, and it follows three escaped convicts searching for hidden treasure while a sheriff
Much of the music used in the film is period [[American folk music|folk music]].<ref name="Score">{{cite web| last=Menaker| first=Daniel| title=A Film Score Odyssey Down a Quirky Country Road| newspaper=The New York Times| date=November 30, 2000| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/30/movies/arts-in-america-a-film-score-odyssey-down-a-quirky-country-road.html| access-date=February 4, 2010| archive-date=November 14, 2013| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114142848/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/30/movies/arts-in-america-a-film-score-odyssey-down-a-quirky-country-road.html| url-status=live}}</ref> The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital [[color correction]] to give the film an autumnal [[Sepia tone|sepia-tinted]] look.<ref name="CGS"/> It was released by [[Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures|Buena Vista Pictures]] in North America, while [[Universal Pictures]], through [[United International Pictures]], released it in other countries. The film was met with a positive critical reception, and the soundtrack won a [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year]] in 2002.<ref name="Grammy01">{{cite news| title=The 2002 Grammy Winners| newspaper=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]| date=February 28, 2002| url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-2002-Grammy-winners-2868670.php| access-date=September 9, 2018| archive-date=August 1, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801024649/https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/The-2002-Grammy-winners-2868670.php| url-status=live}}</ref> The country and folk musicians who were [[Dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbed]] into the film include [[John Hartford]], [[Alison Krauss]], [[Dan Tyminski]], [[Emmylou Harris]], [[Gillian Welch]], [[Ralph Stanley]], [[Chris Sharp]], and [[Patty Loveless]]. They joined to perform the music from the film on the ''[[Down from the Mountain]]'' concert tour. One of the performances was filmed and released as a documentary.<ref name="Score" /><ref name="NPR1">{{cite episode| series=[[Fresh Air]]| network=[[NPR]]| title=Pioneering Bluegrass Musician Ralph Stanley| air-date=December 27, 1992| url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=892951| access-date=September 9, 2018| archive-date=November 16, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116060228/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=892951| url-status=live}}</ref>
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Three convicts, Pete, Delmar and leader Ulysses Everett McGill, escape from a [[chain gang]] to retrieve a buried treasure before the area is flooded to make a lake. The three get a lift from a blind man driving a [[handcar]] on a railway. He tells them they will find a fortune, but not the one they seek. The trio make their way to the house of Wash, Pete's cousin. They sleep in the barn, but Wash reports them to Sheriff Cooley, who, along with his men, torches the barn. Wash's son helps them escape.
They pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man who claims he [[Deal with the Devil|sold his soul to the devil]] in exchange for the ability to play guitar. In need of money, the four stop at a radio station where they record a song as the Soggy Bottom Boys. That night, the trio part ways with Tommy after their car is discovered by the police, and they briefly fall in with outlaw [[Baby Face Nelson]].
Near a river, the group hears singing. They see three women washing clothes and singing. The women give them [[corn whiskey]] and they lose consciousness. Upon waking, Delmar finds Pete's clothes lying next to him, empty except for a toad. Delmar is convinced the women were [[Siren (mythology)|Sirens]] and transformed Pete into the toad. Later, one-eyed Bible salesman Big Dan invites them for a picnic lunch, then mugs them and kills the toad.
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* [[John Goodman]] as Daniel "Big Dan" Teague, a one-eyed mugger and Ku Klux Klan member who masquerades as a Bible salesman. He corresponds to the cyclops [[Polyphemus]] in the ''Odyssey''.<ref name="classica"/>
* [[Holly Hunter]] as Penny Wharvey-McGill, Everett's ex-wife. She corresponds to [[Penelope]] in the ''Odyssey''.<ref name="classica"/>
* [[Charles Durning]] as Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel, the governor of Mississippi. The character is based on Texas governor [[W. Lee O'Daniel|W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel]].<ref>{{citation |url=http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/08/today-in-texas-history-gov-pappy-odaniel-resigns/ |title=Today in Texas History: Gov. Pappy O'Daniel resigns |access-date=August 2, 2011 |date=August 4, 2010 |last=Sorin |first=Hillary |work=[[The Houston Chronicle]] |quote=Many cultural and political historians think the character Gov. Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel of Mississippi is based on the notorious Texas politician, Wilbert Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel. |archive-date=October 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012012700/http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2010/08/today-in-texas-history-gov-pappy-odaniel-resigns/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He shares a name with [[Menelaus]], an ''Odyssey'' character, but corresponds
* [[Daniel von Bargen]] as Sheriff Cooley, a ruthless rural sheriff who pursues the trio for the duration of the film. He corresponds to both [[Poseidon]] in the ''Odyssey'' and also possibly [[Devil in Christianity|the devil]].<ref name="classica"/> He has been compared to Boss Godfrey in ''[[Cool Hand Luke]]''.<ref>{{cite book| last=Conard| first=Mark T.| title=The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4tG17_O8VkC&q=godfrey| page=58| date=March 1, 2009| publisher=University of Kentucky Press| isbn=978-0813138695| access-date=November 18, 2020| archive-date=March 15, 2023| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315194402/https://books.google.com/books?id=r4tG17_O8VkC&q=godfrey| url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Wayne Duvall]] as Homer Stokes, a candidate for governor and the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter. His singing is dubbed by [[Ralph Stanley]].
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