O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000
adventure film written, produced, edited, and directed by
Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring
George Clooney,
John Turturro, and
Tim Blake Nelson, with
John Goodman,
Holly Hunter, and
Charles Durning in supporting roles. Set in 1937 rural
Mississippi during the
Great Depression, the film's story is a modern
satire loosely based on
Homer's epic poem,
Odyssey. The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 film
Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist (a director) wants to film a fictional book about the Great Depression called
O Brother, Where Art Thou?