Brazil

1985 143 min Comedy, Science Fiction

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.

IMDb 7.8 RT 98 Metacritic 84

budget $15,000,000 earnings $9,953,708 return 0.7x

director Terry Gilliam

writers Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown, Terry Gilliam

cast