
Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home
Plot outline
Personal notes
Cast
- George Clooney
- John Turturro
- Tim Blake Nelson
- John Goodman
- Holly Hunter
- Chris Thomas King
- Charles Durning
- Del Pentecost
- Michael Badalucco
- J.R. Horne
- Brian Reddy
- Wayne Duvall
- Ed Gale
- Ray McKinnon
- Daniel von Bargen
- Royce D. Applegate
- Frank Collison
- Quinn Gasaway
- Lee Weaver
- Millford Fortenberry
- Stephen Root
- John Locke
- Gillian Welch
- A. Ray Ratliff
- Mia Tate
- Musetta Vander
- Christy Taylor
- April Hardcastle
- Michael W. Finnell
- Georgia Rae Rainer
- Marianna Breland
- Lindsey Miller
- Natalie Shedd
- John McConnell
- Issac Freeman
- Wilson Waters Jr.
- Robert Hamlett
- Willard Cox
- Evelyn Cox
- Suzanne Cox
- Sidney Cox
- Buck White
- Sharon White
- Cheryl White
- Ed Snodderly
- David Holt
- Dan Andreiu
- Seth Bailey
- Billy W. Blackwell
- Ron Block
- Dan Braun
- Ryder Davis
- Jerry Douglas
- Christopher Francis
- Gloria Gonnillini
- Geoffrey Gould
- Stuart Greenwell
- Emily D. Haley
- R.C. Keene
- Nathan Kornelis
- Nathaniel Lee Jr.
- Lamar Lott
- Mark Munson
- Andy Sims
- Christa Sparks
- Shayne Tingle
- Dan Tyminski
- Leon Walls
- John Wilkie
Plots
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber George "Baby Face" Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning governor and his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find."
Mississippi, 1937. Three convicts escape from a jail chain-gang intent on getting to the loot stashed away by one of them. As this is at his house soon to be flooded by a new dam, speed is of the essence. They find themselves fast-talking their way out of one jam after another, and along the way not only have to be wary of riverside sirens but even get to make a pretty good country record.