Twelve Monkeys (original title)
- Status: Completed
- Score: 8/10
- Director: Terry Gilliam
- Country: USA
- Year: 1995
- Duration: 129 min
- Genres: Mystery,Sci-Fi,Thriller,
- Production:
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.
An intense film about time travel, this Sci-Fi entry was directed by Terry Gilliam, a member of the comedy troupe Monty Python. The film stars Bruce Willis as James Cole, a prisoner of the state in the year 2035 who can earn parole if he agrees to travel back in time and thwart a devastating plague. The virus has wiped out most of the Earth’s population and the remainder live underground because the air is poisonous. Returning to the year 1990, six years before the start of the plague, Cole is soon imprisoned in a psychiatric facility because his warnings sound like mad ravings. There he meets a scientist named Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) and Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the mad son of an eminent virologist (Christopher Plummer). Cole is returned by the authorities to the year 2035, and finally ends up at his intended destination in 1996. He kidnaps Dr. Railly in order to enlist her help in his quest. Cole discovers graffiti by an apparent animal rights group called the Army …
Joseph Melito, Jon Seda, Vernon Campbell, Bob Adrian, Carol Florence, Ernest Abuba, Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Bruce Willis, Michael Chance, H. Michael Walls, Simon Jones, Bill Raymond, Irma St. Paule, Joey Perillo,
