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• In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for subconscious treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

• Loosely based on Homer'southward "Odyssey," the moving picture deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a concatenation gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a banking company heist they are confronted by a serial of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, depository financial institution 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 y'all seek shall not exist the treasure you discover."

• Mississippi, 1937. Three convicts escape from a jail chain-gang intent on getting to the loot stashed abroad by one of them. Every bit this is at his business firm soon to exist flooded past a new dam, speed is of the essence. They observe themselves fast-talking their way out of one jam after another, and along the way not only have to exist wary of riverside sirens but even get to make a pretty adept land record.

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• Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney), a suave, fast-taking captive, escapes from incarceration at a chain gang in rural Mississippi in 1937 during the Dandy Depression. He is chained to two other prisoners, boring-witted Delmar (Tim Blake Neslon) and hot-tempered Pete (John Turturro), so the three must escape together. Everett convinces them that he has hidden $1.ii million afterwards robbing an armored car, and promises to split it with them. They hitch a ride with an elderly blind man on a railway handcar, and he foretells that they volition indeed find a treasure, though it may non be the one they seek.

  They travel on foot to visit Pete'southward cousin, Washington Hogwallop, who removes their shackles, gives them new clothes, and allows them to slumber in his barn for the night. However, the trio is awakened by the authorities, led past the partly-blinded World State of war I veteran Sheriff Cooley (Daniel Von Bargen) after Hogwallop had turned them in for the reward. The befouled is set ablaze, but Everett, Pete, and Delmar escape with the aid of Hogwallop's rambunctious young son (who drives them out of the fiery barn in a automobile).

  They continue their journey, and see a religious congregation in the midst of a mass baptism. Pete and Delmar are drawn in and are baptized besides, but Everett resists. They later pick up a hitchhiking immature black guitarist, named Tommy Johnson (Chris Thomas King), who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for musical talent. They hear that the nearby WEZY radio station pays people to sing into a tin can, then they pay a visit to the blind disc jockey (Stephen Root), and sing a version of "Man of Constant Sorrow" with Tommy accompanying them. Calling themselves 'The Soggy Bottom Boys', they are paid $40 in greenbacks and go out satisfied. However, unbeknownst to them, their tape becomes wildly popular around the state, with no i knowing the identity of the band.

  That dark, the shadowy Sheriff Cooley and police rail them downwardly and find their auto almost their military camp. Everett, Pete, and Delmar office means with Tommy as they escape. The adjacent day, they meet famed robber George 'Babyface' Nelson (Michael Badalucco), on the run from police, and back-trail him in robbing a bank. Later on spending the dark at a army camp, Babyface gives them a share of the stolen loot and departs.

  The trio encounters three sirens: beautiful women washing clothes in the river, and are seduced by them. Delmar and Everett detect the side by side morning that Pete has disappeared, and Delmar believes the women had turned him into a toad (which was establish in Pete's abandoned clothes). Carrying "Pete" in a shoe box, Delmar and Everett get to a eating house for breakfast where they meet Big Dan Teague (John Goodman), a one-eyed Bible salesman. Thinking that their box contains coin, Big Dan lures them to a field for an advanced tutorial on salesmanship. He violently beats the two men, kills the toad after finding no cash, and steals their car and what money they have on them.

  Bruised and defeated, Everett and Delmar get in at Everett'due south hometown, where he attempts to speak to his estranged wife, Penny (Holly Hunter), mother of his seven daughters. He finds that Penny is engaged to Vernon T. Waldrip, the campaign director for Homer Stokes (Wayne Duvall), who is running for governor against the grouchy elderly incumbent, Pappy O'Daniel (Charles Durning). Penny refuses to take Everett dorsum, and was and so ashamed of his arrest that she told their daughters he was hit by a train and killed.

  Rejected, Everett and Delmar attend a film, where a prison chain gang is in the audience. Pete, it turns out, was turned into the police by the Sirens, and is again in chains. In the theater, Pete advises his friends to abandon their quest, every bit it is a "bushwhack."

  That dark, Everett and Delmar stealthily suspension him out of jail. Pete tearfully confesses that, afterward threatened with death by the government, he revealed their plans to detect the armored car loot for Sheriff Cooley, whom they finally learn is the i who has been hunting them beyond the land. However, Everett reveals that he fabricated the story to entice Pete and Delmar to escape with him. Everett had truthfully been arrested for practicing constabulary without a license, and was determined to escape when he heard his wife planned to remarry. If defenseless, the trio could face up an boosted 50 years in jail. An enraged Pete tackles Everett.

  The three stumble upon a Ku Klux Klan rally in a nearby field. Shocked, they see that Tommy Johnson has been captured and that the Klan is preparing to hang him. The trio disguise themselves as colour guard members and attempt to rescue Tommy, merely are confronted by Big Dan Teague, a member in attendance. The red-robed 1000 Wizard, it and so happens, is candidate for governor Homer Stokes. Later a scuffle, Everett, Pete, and Delmar topple a huge fiery crucifix onto Big Dan, presumably killing him, and escape with Tommy.

  The four men arrive at a campaign dinner, disguised by long fake beards. Pretending to be the hired band, they slip onstage and entertain (Delmar sings an impressive version of "In the Jailhouse Now") while Everett attempts to speak to Penny again. When the men launch into "Homo of Abiding Sorrow", they watch in awe as the entire audience rises to its feet and cheers, recognizing them every bit the elusive Soggy Lesser Boys. Even so, Homer Stokes arrives and tries to reveal them as the men who disrupted the lynch mob in operation of its duties. The townspeople are outraged at Homer'due south confessed racism, and literally ride him out on a rail. Everett, Pete, Delmar, and Tommy resume playing, and a delighted (and victorious) Pappy O'Daniel joins them onstage and grants them an official pardon. Later the result, Penny takes Everett back, but demands that he render to their old cabin and retrieve her wedding ring. The iv men depart rapidly, as the cabin is in the valley that is due to exist flooded the following day. They briefly see Babyface Nelson again, re-captured past police, but in extremely high spirits, happy at the thought of being executed in the electric chair.

  The men arrive at the cabin the adjacent morning, but to their horror discover that Sheriff Cooley and his posse accept defenseless up with them and his men have already dug their graves. As the authorities loop nooses over a tree branch, Everett drops to his knees and prays that he might come across his daughters once more. At that moment, the valley is flooded. The cabin is destroyed, and Everett, Pete, Delmar, and Tommy surface on the newly-fabricated lake. They retrieve the sought-afterward ring from a floating roll top desk, and render to town.

  Before long afterward, Everett is happily reunited with Penny and his children. The family is taking a walk through the boondocks when Penny remarks that the ring Everett brought her is the wrong one. She firmly asserts to a frustrated Everett that he must observe the original band (at present at the bottom of a lake). Their daughters sing the hymn Angel Band as they cross paths with the elderly handcar operator who had predicted Everett'south fate.

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