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1985

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Starring	Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
Director	Terry Gilliam
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Brazil

BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls in love with.
The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular: giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochromatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive--one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.

Starring	Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks
Director	Terry Gilliam
Studio	20TH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 17 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 17 mins
Certificate
Genres	Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Language	DVD: English Blu-ray: English
Hearing-impaired	English
Subtitles	DVD: Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
Released	Production year: 1985 To Rent: DVD: 19 May 2003 Blu-ray: Unavailable for rental Blu-ray: 05 Dec 2011

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- An expensive, wild, overlong, hit-or-miss Orwellian satire: enough good jabs to please the intelligentsia, but a turnoff for patrons at the local Odeon.
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- - Halliwell's Film Guide
  - 02 Mar 2006 at 15:42
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  Mind Bendingly Long
  
  There seems to be an element of the "Emporer’s new clothes" about Brazil.
  
  Certainly there are impressive aspects and as a humorous ... read more »
  
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  - 05 Dec 2004 at 11:29
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  Wierd but good
  
  This is odd and at times difficult to follow. But unusual and interesting. I dont know if Id be that keen on seeing it again but definitely worth a look
  
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  - 16 Dec 2011 at 10:09
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  why is it called brazil?
  
  Brazil portrays a future in which Big Brother is definitely watching. The film suggests no particular time, boasting a retro style that gives it an ominous ... read more »
  
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  - 13 Dec 2011 at 11:44
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  Not as Good As Expected
  
  It's all about expectations. I expected a meaningful plot and all the other elements that go up to make a good story and a good film.
  
  The film ... read more »
  
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Rating breakdown

19,498 Member ratings

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90	2,062
80	3,771
70	3,141
60	2,855
50	1,581
40	1,318
30	760
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  BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. The film, cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an ...