Brazil (1985)

Directors:

Terry Gilliam

Writers:

Charles McKeown, Tom Stoppard, Terry Gilliam

Actors:

Patrick Connor, James Coyle, David Gant, Ralph Nossek, John Grillo, Harold Innocent

Synopsis:

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
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  • Highest Rating 90
  • Lowest Rating 77
  • Average Rating 84
90

Brazil (1985)

The film combines the worst features of 1940s British bureaucracy, 1950s American paranoia, Stalinist totalitarianism & the ills of the 1980s, all set “somewhere in the 20th century”. The most bizarre, yet the most typical film ever directed by Gilliam; definitely his masterpiece
doudouce55
January 31, 2014
77

Brazil (1985)

Gilliam and dystopian cinema is like a perfectly fitting glove. His imagination was made for this sort of subject matter and Brazil is the type of satire I can get behind, great visuals and some genuinely amusing situations and dialogue.
wintermayer
February 21, 2012