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1985, Movie, R, 131 mins

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Black humor dons its darkest robes in Terry Gilliam's masterpice that's simultaneously blindingly obtuse, excessively morose and dazzling in its visual inventiveness. The theme is latter-day Orwell, well beyond 1984. Punctilious statistician Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) toils away in the Ministry of Information, and like millions of others, he lives and works in a subterranean world crowded with a huge snakelike ductwork that heats, cools and generally keeps the community going — when it works. A disaster, of sorts, is set off when a bug in the computer system causes everything to go haywire by altering the arrest record for a terrorist named Tuttle (Robert De Niro) to read Buttle. Read the complete review for Brazil
Year: 1985
Rated R

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Cast
Jonathan Pryce: Sam Lowry
Robert De Niro: Tuttle
Katherine Helmond: Ida Lowry
Ian Holm: Kurtzmann
Bob Hoskins: Spoor
Michael Palin: Jack Lint

 

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