Brazil

About 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 identitie…

Brazil (1985) is a comedy science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. Its themes are audacious, dreams, baffled, and witty.

Jonathan Pryce takes the lead as Sam Lowry, Robert De Niro as Harry Tuttle, Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Ida Lowry, and Ian Holm as Mr. Kurtzmann. It runs 143 minutes and was released in February 1985.

The screenplay is by Charles McKeown and Terry Gilliam. Produced by Embassy International Pictures.

A Clockwork Orange, Children of Men, and Apocalypto make useful companions to Brazil, all filed under dark comedy and dystopia. TMDB voters put it at 7.7 out of 10 across 3,849 votes and it carries a R rating.