O Brother, Where Art Thou?

"Say, any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin'?"

"[Repeated line] Damn, we're in a tight spot!"

"Well, any human being will cast about in a moment of stress. No, the fact is, they're flooding this valley so they can hydroelectric up the whole durn state. Yessir, the South is gonna change. Everything's gonna be put on electricity and run on a paying basis. Out with old spiritual mumbo-jumbo, the superstition and the backward ways. We're gonna see a brave new world where they run everyone a wire and hook us all up to the grid. Yessir, a veritable age of reason - like they had in France. And not a moment too soon..."

"Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?"

"They have a plan, but not a clue."

"Sometimes, you have to lose your way to get back home."

"George Clooney – Ulysses ("Ulysses") Everett McGill"

"John Turturro – Pete"

"Tim Blake Nelson – Delmar O' Donnell"

"John Goodman – Big Dan ("Cyclops") Teague"

"Holly Hunter – Penny (Penelope) McGill nee Wharvey"

"Chris Thomas King – Tommy Johnson"

"Charles Durning – Governor Menelaus "Pappy" O'Daniel"

"Wayne Duvall – Homer Stokes"

"Ray McKinnon – Vernon T. Waldrip Suitor of Penelope"