Rent Brazil (1985)
3.8 of 5 from 408 ratings
2h 16min
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- Synopsis:
- It's only a state of mind. Jonathan Pryce stars as Sam Lowry in this surrealistic spectacle about a daydreaming bureaucrat trapped in a future dystopia where love is forbidden from interfering with efficiency. But with the help of an underground superhero (Robert De Niro) and a beautiful mystery woman (Kim Greist), Sam learns to soar to freedom on the wings of his untamed imagination, or so he thinks.
- Actors:
- Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, Kathryn Pogson, Bryan Pringle, Sheila Reid, John Flanagan, Ray Cooper, Brian Miller, Simon Nash
- Directors:
- Terry Gilliam
- Producers:
- Arnon Milchan
- Writers:
- Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown, Charles Alverson
- Others:
- George Gibbs, Richard Conway, Norman Garwood, Maggie Gray
- Studio:
- 20th Century Fox
- Genres:
- Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 05/12/2011
- Run Time:
- 136 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Featurette: What Is Brazil?
- Trailer
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Reviews (3) of Brazil
Brazil - nuts! - Brazil review by Cherry
Saw half of this and thought it was rubbish.
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Brilliant! - Brazil review by CP Customer
Adaptation (very loose but genial) of Orwell dystopia "1984". In my opinion it's best Terry Gilliam film..
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Not for me. - Brazil review by LH
It's not often I don't finish a film, but this is one. Just like Terry Gillingham and like dystopia views of the the future, but the in this film were lame. It's almost like the film is trying to be too allegorical to the detriment of the characterisations. I found Ben Wheatley's adaptation of getting Ballard's High Rise similarly difficult to sit through, despite living all his other films.
I guess what I'm trying to say if you like highly stylised films with great spring and awesome props, you'll like Brazil, but if you like film for a storyline and characterisations with a semblance of decent plot you'll drift off in Brazil and stay thinking about Putney things.... "Oooh I think I left the iron on."
0 out of 1 members found this review helpful.