Twelve Monkeys (1995)

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Written by Chris Marker, David Webb Peoples

Directed by Terry Gilliam

Also known as "12 Monkeys", "12 Monos", "Doce Monos", "Douze singes", "Os 12 Macacos", "Os Doze Macacos"

Running Time: 145 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1995

Rating: 15 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

Released in 1995, this haunting, atmospheric sci-fi thriller combines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam.

The story begins in a wintry post-apocalyptic wasteland and the year is 2035. An extremely infectious disease has forced society to move underground where they are protected from it.

James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a social outcast and criminal, but has been given the opportunity to clear his name of all criminal activity on one condition: he has to travel back in time to the 1990's and return with a concentrated sample of the disease to allow scientists to create a cure.

However when Cole is constantly whiplashed between the First World War, 1990, 1996 and 2035, he gets caught up between the dangers of the past and the terror of the future and starts questioning his perception on reality. He meets Dr Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), a psychiatrist who is convinced that he has lost his mind, and Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), a crazy mental patient who has connections with a radical group that may have already unleashed the deadly virus.

Unfortunately, after Kathryn successfully convinces Cole that his story is all an illusion, she comes up with physical evidence that suggests that everything he has said is, in fact, true after all...

Cast

Image for Bruce WillisBruce WillisJames Cole
Image for Brad PittBrad PittJeffrey Goines
Image for Madeleine StoweMadeleine StoweKathryn Railly
Jon SedaJose
Joseph MelitoYoung Cole
Michael ChanceScarface
Vernon CampbellTiny
H. Michael WallsBotanist
Bob AdrianGeologist
John Simon JonesZoologist
Carol FlorenceAstrophysicist
Bill RaymondMicrobiologist
Ernest AbubaEngineer
Irma St. PaulePoet
Joey PerilloDet. Franki
Bruce KirkpatrickPoliceman

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