O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

This is a solid movie. In 1937, tidy, smooth-talking Everett McGill (George Clooney), along with simple-minded Pete (John Torturro) and angry Delmar (Tim Nelson), decide to break free from their chain gang in Mississippi. Everett claims to have buried a treasure worth $1.2 million that has to be retrieved in four days before the river rises and floods out the area. After visiting a radio station to perform a few songs for quick money, their album becomes successful unbeknownst to them. Everett locates his wife and daughters and tries to prevent her from getting remarried.

"Man of Constant Sorrow" was first recorded by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler, around 1913. "(Give Me That) Old-Time Religion" is a gospel song originally from 1873. The film is loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, which was composed in the 8th century BC. Ulysses is the Latin form of the name of Odysseus. Big Dan (John Goodman) is blind in one eye; this is similar to Polyphemus the Cyclops. Former Governor of Louisiana Jimmie Davis, used "You Are My Sunshine" as his political theme song.