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Overview
Tagline:
It's only a state of mind. morePlot:
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. full summary | full synopsis (warning! may contain spoilers)Awards:
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
An extraordinary movie, original, funny and frightening. Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jonathan Pryce | ... | Sam Lowry | |
| Robert De Niro | ... | Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle | |
| Katherine Helmond | ... | Mrs. Ida Lowry | |
| Ian Holm | ... | Mr. M. Kurtzmann | |
| Bob Hoskins | ... | Spoor | |
| Michael Palin | ... | Jack Lint | |
| Ian Richardson | ... | Mr. Warrenn | |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Mr. Helpmann | |
| Kim Greist | ... | Jill Layton | |
| Jim Broadbent | ... | Dr. Jaffe | |
| Barbara Hicks | ... | Mrs. Alma Terrain | |
| Charles McKeown | ... | Harvey Lime | |
| Derrick O'Connor | ... | Dowser | |
| Kathryn Pogson | ... | Shirley | |
| Bryan Pringle | ... | Spiro |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
132 min | 142 min (director's cut) | USA:94 min (edited version)Country:
UKLanguage:
EnglishColour:
Colour (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canada:A (Nova Scotia) | Germany:18 (original rating) (cut) | Germany:12 (re-rating) (uncut) | Germany:12 (re-rating) (2003) | Brazil:14 | Argentina:16 | Australia:M | Canada:AA (Ontario) | Canada:G (Québec) | Canada:PA (Manitoba) | Chile:18 | Finland:K-16 | France:-12 | New Zealand:R13 | Norway:16 (1985) | Singapore:PG | South Korea:15 (DVD rating) | Spain:13 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:R | West Germany:18 (1985-2003)MOVIEmeter: 
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The title song (actually named "Aquarela do Brasil" by Ary Barroso) was used in a movie for the first time in Walt Disney's 6th full length animation _Saludos Amigos (1943)_ . moreGoofs:
Continuity: In the dream sequence when Sam is battling the typewriter warrior, the warrior slams his spear into the ground, leaving over half the spear head exposed. However, a few shots later, when Sam retrieves the spear, the head is completely buried in the ground. moreQuotes:
[first lines]Singers: [TV commercial jingle] Central Services: We do the work, you do the pleasure.
TV commercial pitchman: Hi, there. I want to talk to you about ducts.
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As Time Goes By moreFAQ
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I really can't tell you how much my first viewing of this movie knocked me out. Nearly twenty years ago, before Terry Gilliam's reputation is what it is today, seeing this in a cinema without knowing ANYTHING about it, it was one of the most unforgettable movie experiences of my life! Still is. I was a Python fan since childhood and well aware of Gilliam's animation work, but nothing could prepare you for just how bizarre, funny, scary and disturbing 'Brazil' is. It's still one of the most original and inventive science fiction movies ever made, with a surreal, retro future quite unlike anything seen on a movie screen before or since. Gilliam mixes Python's anarchic, intellectual humour with Orwell, Kafka and Theatre Of The Absurd elements and comes up with something really special. John Sladek kinda sorta wrote some stories in a similar territory before this, and Dean Motter has written some comics since, but 'Brazil' is really in a world of its own! Jonathan Pryce was fairly obscure at the time and an odd choice to play the leading role, but is perfectly cast, and it's hard to think of an actor who would have been as convincing and sympathetic. The rest of the cast includes an amusing cameo from Robert De Niro, Kim Greist (only her second movie, after 'C.H.U.D.' of all things!) as Pryce's love interest, Python's Michael Palin, and a bunch of excellent Brit character actors - Bob Hoskins, Ian Richardson, Ian Holm, Jim Broadbent, etc.etc. It goes without saying that when I praise 'Brazil' I am ONLY referring to Gilliam's cut. This is still an utterly brilliant movie, one of the very best of the last twenty-five years. I can't recommend this movie highly enough, it is a masterpiece pure and simple.