Disenchanted with the daily drudge of crushing rocks on a prison farm in Mississippi, thedapper, silver-tongued Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney, The Perfect Storm) busts loose. Except he’s still shackled to his two chain-mates from the chain gang – bad-tempered Pete ) John Turturro, Summer of Sam) and sweet, dimwitted Delmar (Tim Blake Nelsen, Hamlet).