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Brazil (1985) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
French ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1985 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Terry Gilliam

Written By:
Terry Gilliam
Tom Stoppard

Actors:
Jonathan Pryce ..... Sam Lowry
Robert De Niro ..... Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle
Katherine Helmond ..... Mrs. Ida Lowry
Ian Holm ..... Mr. M. Kurtzmann
Bob Hoskins ..... Spoor
Michael Palin ..... Jack Lint
Ian Richardson ..... Mr. Warrenn
Peter Vaughan ..... Mr. Helpmann
Kim Greist ..... Jill Layton
Jim Broadbent ..... Dr. Jaffe
Barbara Hicks ..... Mrs. Alma Terrain
Charles McKeown ..... Harvey Lime
Derrick O'Connor ..... Dowser
Kathryn Pogson ..... Shirley
Bryan Pringle ..... Spiro

Synopsis:

In a highly structured and bureaucratic state, the government has installed extreme and highly counterproductive measures for which to track down terrorists. A "bug" in the system mixes up the last name of a terrorist (Tuttle) and an innocent man (ironically enough Buttle). Thus, the wrong man (Buttle) is arrested and killed while Tuttle continues to roam free. Sam Lowry, an average man with a mother who "knows people", is assigned to investigate the error. At the same time, Jill layton, Buttle's neighbor, is trying to report the mistake to authorities. Due to the extremely inefficient bureaucracy, she finds the process to be very tedious. Meanwhile, Sam Lowry, who has been dreaming about Jill, gets sidetracked by his fantasies and ends up also being a victim of the counter productivity of the government.

In this nightmarish futuristic satire from director Terry Gilliam, Jonathan Pryce plays Sam Lowrey, a government statistician who chooses to blind himself to the decaying, drone-like world around him. Whenever real life becomes too oppressive, Sam fantasizes (to the tune of the 1940s big-band hit 'Brazil') about being an alternate-world superhero, forever rescuing beautiful Jill Layton (Kim Greist). The omnipresent computer that controls everything in the 'real' world malfunctions, causing the mistaken-identity assassination of an innocent citizen. When Sam routinely investigates the error, he meets Jill, literally the girl of his dreams. It turns out that she is an associate of a terrorist (Robert De Niro) whom the computer had originally intended to target for execution. The price Sam pays for tumbling to this fact is a close encounter with the man in charge of torturing troublesome citizens (Michael Palin).

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 always chasing in his dreams, Jill Layton. Meanwhile, the bureaucracy has fingered him responsible for a rash of terrorist bombings, and both Sam and Jill's lives are put in danger.

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