Watch The Fisher King (1991) Free Online

Release Date: 1991

Cast: Jeff Bridges, Michael Jeter, Ted Ross, Harry Shearer, David Hyde Pierce, Carlos Carrasco, Tom Waits, Mercedes Ruehl, Robin Williams, Amanda Plummer

Categories: Movies, Buddy film, Indie, Comedy-drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Fantasy Comedy

The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter. The film is about a radio shock-jock who tries to find redemption by helping a man whose life he inadvertently shattered. Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a cynical, arrogant talk radio host, becomes suicidally despondent after his insensitive on-air comments about yuppies deserving to die prompt a caller to commit a mass murder at a popular Manhattan bar. Three years later, while heavily... MORE

The Fisher King is a 1991 American comedy-drama film written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam. It stars Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer and Michael Jeter. The film is about a radio shock-jock who tries to find redemption by helping a man whose life he inadvertently shattered. Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a cynical, arrogant talk radio host, becomes suicidally despondent after his insensitive on-air comments about yuppies deserving to die prompt a caller to commit a mass murder at a popular Manhattan bar. Three years later, while heavily intoxicated, he wanders down to a dump by a river. Two men suddenly get out of a car, thinking Lucas is a bum; they douse him with gasoline. Before they can set him on fire, he is rescued by Parry (Robin Williams), a lonely widower who is on a mission to find the Holy Grail, and tries to convince Jack to help him. Jack is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's horrific murder at the hands of Jack's psychotic caller. Parry is also continually haunted by visions of the Red Knight, who terrifies him whenever LESS