... role of fast talking, quick thinking, escaped convict Ulysses Everett McGill who is accompanied on his journey home by two companions, Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and Pete (John Turturro). The name, Ulysses, is the Roman rendering of Homer's Greek hero in The Odyssey, Odysseus. Everett, as he's referred to throughout most ... Calypso sends Odysseus away from her island, she gives him provisions, which he looses when his raft is destroyed by the storm. When the gang left Pete's brother's house they take with them a pig, which they loose when the boy takes it back, after their car brakes do...

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• Grade Level: High School