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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Richard LaGravenese (written by)
Release Date:
20 September 1991 (USA)
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Tagline:
A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail. more
Plot:
A radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a horrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was a victim of it. full summary | add synopsis
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Massacre
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Friendship
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Redemption
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Holy Grail
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Love
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Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 10 wins
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17 nominations
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(47 articles)
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The perfect Robin Williams movie (and much more)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Jeff Bridges | ... | Jack Lucas |
 | Robin Williams | ... | Parry |
 | Mercedes Ruehl | ... | Anne Napolitano |
 | Amanda Plummer | ... | Lydia Sinclair |
 | David Hyde Pierce | ... | Lou Rosen (as David Pierce) |
| Adam Bryant | ... | Radio engineer |
| Paul Lombardi | ... | Radio engineer |
| Ted Ross | ... | Limo bum |
 | Lara Harris | ... | Sondra |
| Warren Olney | ... | TV anchorman |
| Frazer Smith | ... | News reporter |
 | Kathy Najimy | ... | Crazed video customer |
 | Harry Shearer | ... | Sitcom actor Ben Starr |
| Melinda Culea | ... | Sitcom wife |
| James Remini | ... | Bum at hotel |
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MPAA:
Rated R for language and violence.
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Runtime:
137 min
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Colour:
Colour (Technicolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
Iceland:14 |
Iceland:16 (video rating) |
Australia:M |
Germany:16 |
Portugal:M/12 |
South Korea:15 |
Sweden:15 |
Argentina:13 |
Chile:14 |
Finland:K-12 |
France:U |
Peru:14 |
Spain:13 |
UK:15 |
USA:R |
Norway:15
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Trivia:
The positioning of Jack Lucas with the homeless cabaret singer in his arms at the hospital echoes the positions of Mary and Christ in Michelangelo's Pieta at the Vatican.
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Goofs:
Continuity: When Jack dials Lydia's number, it's ended with "11". A couple minutes later, Anna is looking into the same phone book and dials the number ended with "38" or "30"
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Quotes:
Jack Lucas:
Where would King Arthur be without Guinevere?
Parry: Happily married, probably.
Jack Lucas: Well, that's a bad... that's a bad example.
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Parry: Happily married, probably.
Jack Lucas: Well, that's a bad... that's a bad example.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Animaniacs: Video Review/When Mice Ruled the Earth (#1.47)" (????)
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Soundtrack:
Hit The Road Jack
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This movie is really exceptional in a lot of ways. It's got one of those plots, full of ironic reversals and personal struggle, that's been turned into melodramatic trash in every creative medium ever invented. With Robin Williams as the magic crazy guy and Jeff Bridges in an 80s ponytail, the ways the basic concept could have gone awry (in other hands) are truly frightening to contemplate. But with Terry Gilliam at the helm, The Fisher King speaks to your emotions more directly and powerfully than 90% of the movies out there without degenerating into sappiness.
Perhaps the most brilliant acheivement of this movie is the way it takes Robin Williams' crazy-improvisational persona and makes it an integral part of the story. Instead of being a tacked-on adjunct to the "real" movie, Williams' stream-of-consciousness patter is essential to the work as a whole.
At the same time, Gilliam is making an almost-mainstream movie for the first time in his career, while explicitly referencing his past (the Holy Grail). It all comes together into a movie you will never forget.