Genre: Fantasy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Futuristic, Cult Classic, Surreal, Black Comedy, Love, Terrorism, Satire, Prison, Political, Disturbing, Psychodrama, Murder, Escape, Christmas, Spoof, Bugs, Mistaken Identity
Tagline: It's only a state of mind.
Plot: BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for. The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic
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| Directed by |
Terry Gilliam
Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Brothers Grimm |
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| Written by |
Terry Gilliam
Monty Python's Flying Circus, Do Not Adjust Your Set, Monty Python's Flying Circus |
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Jonathan Pryce
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Ronin |
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 | Ian Holm
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Fifth Element |
 | Bob Hoskins
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Enemy at the Gates, Hook |
 | Michael Palin
Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Life of Brian, A Fish Called Wanda |
 | Ian Richardson
From Hell, Dark City, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead |
 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, Gangs of New York, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
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