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Release Date: 1985

Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Derrick O'Connor, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Bryan Pringle, Kathryn Pogson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Katherine Helmond, Kim Greist ...MORE

Cast: Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Derrick O'Connor, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, Michael Palin, Bryan Pringle, Kathryn Pogson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Katherine Helmond, Kim Greist, Charles McKeown, Sheila Reid, Bob Hoskins, Barbara Hicks ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Comedy, Cult, Satire, Fantasy, Kafkaesque, Drama Film, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Black Comedy, Future Noir

Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes the film as a "dystopian satire". The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an... MORE

Brazil is a 1985 British science fiction fantasy/black comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. John Scalzi's Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes the film as a "dystopian satire". The film centres on Sam Lowry, a man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure. Jack Mathews, film critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), described the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving Gilliam crazy all his life". Though a success in Europe, the film was unsuccessful in its initial North America release. It has since become a LESS