It's only a state of mind.
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.
ComedyScience Fictiondreamsgovernmentbureaucracypolice stategreat britaintechnologydystopiaofficedark comedysatiresurrealismsteampunk
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Character
Meticulous, richly built, open-ended and ironic.
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- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- effortlessdemanding
Who loves it, who doesn't
59 profiled raters. Loved most by The Provocateurs; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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Cast
- Jonathan PryceSam Lowry
- Robert De NiroHarry Tuttle
- Katherine HelmondMrs. Ida Lowry
- Ian HolmMr. Kurtzmann
- Bob HoskinsSpoor
- Michael PalinJack Lint
- Ian RichardsonMr. Warrenn
- Peter VaughanMr. Helpmann
- Kim GreistJill Layton
- Jim BroadbentDr. Jaffe
Crew
- Terry GilliamDirector
- Tom StoppardScreenplay
- Terry GilliamScreenplay
- Charles McKeownScreenplay
- Roger PrattDirector of Photography
- Michael KamenOriginal Music Composer
- Julian DoyleEditor
- Arnon MilchanProducer
- Patrick CassavettiProducer
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Donnie Darko 200154% alikeClose across the board; this one is more grave.
Undertale 201572% alikeGame · Close across the board.
Twin Peaks 199059% alikeSeries · Both meticulous.
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