Twelve Monkeys

About Twelve Monkeys

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital.

Twelve Monkeys (1995) is a mystery science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam. At 129 minutes long, it arrived in December 1995.

Bruce Willis stars as James Cole, Madeleine Stowe as Dr. Kathryn Railly, Brad Pitt as Jeffrey Goines, and Christopher Plummer as Dr. Goines. Written by David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples. It was produced by Atlas Entertainment.

Members will find post-apocalyptic future, melancholy, airplane, and paranoia in it.

Minority Report, Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy, and Terminator 2: Judgment Day make useful companions to Twelve Monkeys, all filed under critical, cyberpunk, and dystopia. It scores 7.6 out of 10 from 9,520 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.