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Film Friday: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

March 29, 2013 By Caroline Eubanks 1 Comment

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the Coen Brothers’ adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, set in rural Mississippi in the 1930s. Three convicts escape and encounter a variety of obstacles on their way home, including sirens, a Cyclops and the Ku Klux Klan. The movie stars George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman and Holly Hunter.

Filmed In: Canton, Jackson, Oxford, Valley Park, Vicksburg, and Yazoo City, Mississippi. Additional scenes filmed in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles, California.

If You Like: Ocean’s Eleven, Raising Arizona

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Filed Under: Mississippi, movies Tagged With: filming locations, Jackson, Mississippi, Oxford, Vicksburg, Yazoo City

About Caroline Eubanks

Caroline Eubanks is the editor of this website, a Lowell Thomas award-winning travel writer, and the author of This Is My South: The Essential Travel Guide to the Southern States. Her stories from the South have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Afar, Thrillist, Roads and Kingdoms, and BBC Travel.

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  1. George Lipe says

    November 4, 2019 at 8:47 pm

    The last scene in Oh Brother Where Art Thou was filmed in Edwards, MS on the railroad below the Pennebaker house

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