<Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $72 million </Td> </Tr> <P> O Brother, Where Art Thou? is a 2000 crime comedy film written, produced, 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 . </P> <P> The film is set in 1937 rural Mississippi during the Great Depression, and its story is a modern satire loosely based on Homer's epic poem The Odyssey that incorporates mythology from the American South . The title of the film is a reference to the 1941 film Sullivan's Travels, in which the protagonist is a director who wants to film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, a fictional book about the Great Depression . </P> <P> Much of the music used in the film is period folk music, including that of Virginia bluegrass singer Ralph Stanley . The movie was one of the first to extensively use digital color correction to give the film an autumnal, sepia - tinted look . The film received positive reviews, and the soundtrack won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2001 using American folk music . The original band became popular after the film's release . The country and folk musicians who were dubbed into the film included John Hartford, Alison Krauss, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Chris Sharp, and others . They joined together to perform the music from the film in a Down from the Mountain concert tour which was filmed for TV and DVD . </P>

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