Brazil (1985)

7.8	Listal rating
8	IMDB rating

Directed by

Terry Gilliam

Starring (View all)

Sam Lowry

Harry Tuttle

Mrs. Ida Lowry

Mr. Kurtzmann

Spoor

Jack Lint

Mr. Warrenn

Mr. Helpmann

Written by (View all)

Terry Gilliam

(screenplay)

Tom Stoppard

(screenplay)

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Hopes, wishes, dreams...

3 years, 5 months ago at Jan 6 11:17

AgentLexi

11 votes

''Yes... No... I don't know. I don't know what I want.''

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state.

Jonathan Pryce: Sam Lowry

One of the truest statements about originality in art comes from T.S. Eliot: "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." Terry Gilliam is one of ci... read more

Classic Terry Gilliam filmmaking

3 years ago at Jun 11 5:48

PvtCaboose91

7 votes

"It's been confusion from the word go!"

Inarguably, Brazil is the definitive Terry Gilliam movie. In a sense, it's Gilliam's Citizen Kane. Added to this, it was his first post-Monty Python feature. The Python troupe's final motion picture, The Meaning of Life, hit screens in 1983, and Gilliam perceived his liberation from the group as an opportunity to spread his creative wings. Bra... read more

Gilliam's masterpiece

5 years, 1 month ago at Apr 27 11:38

doudouce55

7 votes

The film combines the worst features of 1940s British bureaucracy, 1950s American paranoia, Stalinist totalitarianism, and the ills of the 1980s, all set “somewhere in the 20th century”.

The screenplay is written by director Terry Gilliam with Tom Stoppard, making the film a more dramatically-engaging film than it would have been if Gilliam had written it alone. The black humor ... read more

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Description: Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient. He dreams of a life where he can fly away from technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and spend eternity with the woman of his dreams. While trying to rectify the wrongful arrest of one Harry Buttle, Lowry meets the woman he is a ... (more)

Release date : 18 December 1985
UPC: 025192016820

Sci-fi (36), Drama (34), Dystopia (32), Comedy (31), Fantasy (25), 1980s (24), 1985 (17), Black Comedy (14), Surrealism (13), UK (12), Terrorism (12), British (10), Bureaucracy (9), Science Fiction (9), Neo Noir (8), Torture (8), Christmas (7), Plastic Surgery (6), Flying (6), Surveillance (6)

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My Favorite "Comedy" If You Will

“This may not be the funniest comedy, but it is actually my favorite. It is probably the funniest "Black Comedy" of all-time. It is also one of the most creative and original films I've ever seen, as expected from Gilliam. It is not your average sci-fi, it is a funny satire of the dystopian world. It is a visual splendor as well as an intellectual one. It is actually quite deep with much meaning and it is overall just brilliant. The ending is very depressing, yet it does have a hint of hope as the "Brazil" song plays in the ending credits. De Niro's character of Harry Tuttle is both fascinating and very funny. The whole debate about whether or not he is real<” read more