Brazil (The Criterion Collection 3-Disc Boxed Set) DVD, Jim Broadbent, Kim Greis

Condition: Like New.
Product Key Features
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terrence Vance Gilliam
Edition; Criterion Collection; 3-Disc Set
Rating: R
Format: DVD
Movie/TV Title: Brazil
Genre: Comedy

Additional Product Features:
Film Country: United Kingdom
Region Code: Region 1
Display Format: Criterion Collection; 3-Disc Set
Number of Discs: 3
Leading Role: Robert De Niro, Michael Palin, Jonathan Pryce
Release Date: June 29, 1999

Product Information:
BRAZIL is Terry Gilliam's masterpiece. Cowritten by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, the cult-favorite film is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (an excellent Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedom--and the woman he loves. The terrific, offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer; Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother; Michael Palin as a government-sanctioned torturer with a distaste for upsetting the status quo; Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee; Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon; the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature; and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for. The look of BRAZIL is relentless, overwhelming, and outrageously spectacular. Giant monoliths rise from the street; government offices are a network of computers, pneumatic tubes, and narrow hallways built with Nazi-like precision; and apartment complexes are a maze of washed-out grays and numbers, all frighteningly uniform. The terrorist explosions actually bring color into this dull, monochramatic world. BRAZIL is a nightmare vision of the future, yet also hysterically funny and incisive, one of the most inventive, influential, and important films of the 1980s.