Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Terry Gilliam
- Writer
- Charles McKeown
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $15,000,000
Cast
Bob Hoskins
Ian Holm
Ian Richardson
Jim Broadbent
Jonathan Pryce
Katherine Helmond
Kim Greist
Michael Palin
Peter Vaughan
Robert De Niro
Keywords
bombing
bureaucracy
christmas
criterion
dark comedy
dreams
dystopia
government
great britain
job promotion
office
police state
repairman
satire
steampunk
surrealism
technology
terrorism
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