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Homer's Odyssey
O Brother, Where Art Thou? at the Internet Movie Database

Coen, Joel & Ethan. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Film. Touchstone Pictures: 2000.

This film is a modern retelling of Homer's Odyssey, starring George Clooney as Ulysses Everett McGill, an escaped convict looking to win his wife back from the husband she married while Everett was incarcerated.

Everett and his companions, Pete Hogswallop (John Turturro) and Delbar O'Donnell (Tim Blake Nelson), have to get past a number of obstacles, including sirens in the form of attractive prostitutes, a cyclops in the form of an eye-patch wearing, bible-selling John Goodman, and lotus eaters in the form of proselytizing Baptists.

As a hat tip from the producers, Homer was given a co-writing credit by the Coen brothers.

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