Brazil Original Movie Poster 1985
.Directed by Terry Gilliam
Produced by Arnon Milchan
Joseph P. Grace
Written by Terry Gilliam
Tom Stoppard
Charles McKeown
Starring Jonathan Pryce
Kim Greist
Michael Palin
Robert De Niro
Katherine Helmond
Bob Hoskins
Ian Holm
Music by Michael Kamen
Cinematography Roger Pratt
Editing by Julian Doyle
Distributed by 20th Century Fox (Europe)
Universal Pictures (US)
Release date(s) France:
February 20, 1985
United Kingdom:
February 22, 1985
United States:
December 18, 1985
Running time 94 min.
Television Cut
136 min.
Theatrical Cut
142 min.
Director's Cut
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $15,000,000 (estimated)
Gross revenue $9,929,000 (USA)
IMDb • Allmovie
Brazil is a 1985 dystopian 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 centers on Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a young 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, slap-stick quality, and lacks any kind of figurehead.
Jack Mathews, movie critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), characterized the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving [Gilliam] crazy all his life."[1] Though a success in Europe, the film flopped upon initial release in North America, even with the extra publicity of the fight with the studio. It has since become an important cult film.
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