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12 Monkeys, 1995
English
USA
Profile of 12 Monkeys
12 Monkeys can be described as mind bending, bleak, and stylized. The plot revolves around changing the past or future, memory loss, and a plague. The main genres are thriller, sci-fi, and mystery. In terms of style, 12 Monkeys is postmodernist, is nonlinear, and is futuristic. In approach, it is fantastical and serious. It is located in Philadelphia. 12 Monkeys takes place in the 1990s. It is based on a short film and a remake. The movie has received attention for being original, a modern classic, and a blockbuster. Note that 12 Monkeys involves violent content and profanity.
Summary of 12 Monkeys
When a man enters a hospital claiming to have journeyed back in time from the year 2025 to stop a killer virus from exterminating mankind, a beautiful psychologist decides he might be more than delusional. Terry Gilliam populates this labyrinthine, apocalyptic film with twisted characters and eerie revelations. The film was shot primarily in Philadelphia; Gilliam uses the more dilapidated area of the city to the film's apocalyptic advantage. The film is based on the 1962 French short film LA JETEE.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 5 January 1996 |
| Runtime: | 129 min |
Cast and Crew
as James Cole
as Jeffrey Goines
as Kathryn Railly
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Critics Reviews
Rolling Stone
Gilliam, along with the gifted cinematographer Roger Pratt and production designer Jeffrey Beecroft, fashions a disturbing and dazzling lost world.
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- by: Peter Travers
TV Guide
That Terry Gilliam managed to make Twelve Monkeys into a clever, complex, and poignant success is as astonishing as it is satisfying.
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Users Reviews
12 Monkeys is an ingenious Sci-Fi Film. Based off of a Chris Marker short, 12 Monkeys takes the idea of that short and expands it into a much fuller world. The plot is engaging and twisting, leaving the viewer wondering where the story is going.
- 29.March.2010
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- by: tj229er
- tj229er rated this movie
10/10Must See
You can't change to past, can you? Oh man, you want to, tho. You hope and hope that it won't be like you saw it. Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt... oh Brad Pitt... the scenes in the state mental ward with Pitt are so great. This was the first time I...
- 22.June.2009
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- by: Laura
- Laura rated this movie10/10Must See
