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Original title: Fisher King, The
Release Date
• USA: Sep 20, 1991
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 16, 1999
Budget $24,000,000
Running Time
2 hours, 17 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation
Studio TriStar
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• The Fisher King (1991)
• König der Fischer (1991)
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Drama, Comedy, Surreal, Mental Illness, Love, Buddies, Fantasy, Mental Institution, Tragedy, Murder, Cult Classic, Melodrama
Tagline: A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.
Plot: Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a self-obsessed shock jock who thinks he has it all, is about to hit rock bottom. The cult personality spends his time on the radio insulting and berating his listeners, but when one caller takes Jack's advice literally and shoots up a New York City hotspot, Jack is sent swirling down into a depression that has him suicidal three years later. However, he is rescued out of the night by a different kind of knight in shining armor--a homeless man named Parry, played fabulously by Robin Williams, who thinks he's on a quest for the Holy Grail, which he believes to be in a Fifth Avenue town house. Parry serves as the living embodiment of Jack's guilt--Parry's beloved wife was killed in the nightclub massacre. Jack soon becomes conviced that by helping Parry he will also wind up helping himself, so he tries to help Parry win his lady love (Amanda Plummer), at the expense of risking his own relationship with Anne (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Academy Award-winning role), who has stood by his side during his downward spiral.Terry Gilliam's romantic parable THE FISHER KING is yet another visually stunning work from a master filmmaker, with a different kind of heart from Gilliam's other films, delving deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of
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Twelve Monkeys, Brazil, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
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