Before Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ the 1997 TV Miniseries Was the Ultimate (and Very Much Unserious) Homer Adaptation

Those mixed on Nolan's IMAX epic — especially obsessive Homer classicists — will find much to love in Andrei Konchalovsky’s two-part TV version starring Armand Assante, Bernadette Peters, Vanessa Williams, and Isabella Rossellini.