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 identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Comedy, Science Fiction
Embassy International Pictures
Jonathan Pryce as Sam Lowry, Robert De Niro as Archibald 'Harry' Tuttle, Katherine Helmond as Mrs. Ida Lowry, Ian Holm as Mr. M. Kurtzmann, Bob Hoskins as Spoor, Michael Palin as Jack Lint, Ian Richardson as Mr. Warrenn, Terry Gilliam as Smoking Man (uncredited), Peter Vaughan as Mr. Helpmann, Kim Greist as Jill Layton, Jim Broadbent as Dr. Jaffe, Derrick O'Connor as Dowser, Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Priest, John Pierce Jones as Basement Guard, Barbara Hicks as Mrs. Alma Terrain, Charles McKeown as Harvey Lime, Kathryn Pogson as Shirley, Bryan Pringle as Spiro, Nigel Planer as Charlie--Dept. of Works, Terence Bayler as T.V. Commercial Presenter, Gorden Kaye as M.O.I. Lobby Porter, Jack Purvis as Dr. Chapman