Ulysses’ wife, Penny (Holly Hunter) corresponds to Penelope, and Vernon T. Waldrip (Ray McKinnon) stands in for the many suitors of Penelope in the original tale.

Penelope’s suitors, in particular, are dressed in gaudy fur coats, colorful beanies, headbands, and sunglasses in jarring “frat-bro” caricatures.

The film adapts the later chapters of the protagonist where he returns to his home of Ithaca only to find it invaded by suitors trying to compete for the hand of Penelope. Ralph Fiennes in The Return.

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey ... caring for her son Telemachus, fending off hundreds of suitors, and weaving an intricate tapestry. She’s loyal, dutiful, ...