
Brazil
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.
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.
- director
- Terry Gilliam
- cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm
- genres
- runtime
- 2 hr 23 mins
people also liked
Time Bandits
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Zero Theorem
Ghostbusters
Videodrome
The City of Lost Children
Blade Runner
The Wages of Fear
The Brothers Grimm
Talk Radio
Into the Night
Jabberwocky
The Breakfast Club
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Twelve Monkeys
Tideland
Life of Brian
The Abyss
Aliens