Overview
Plot
A low-level bureaucrat escapes his dull life through daydreams of heroism. Investigating a wrongful arrest, he meets the woman from his dreams and is drawn into a web of mistaken identities and bureaucracy.
- Directors
- Terry Gilliam
- Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, Kathryn Pogson, Bryan Pringle, Sheila Reid, John Flanagan, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, John Pierce Jones, Nigel Planer
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Genre
- Comedy, Science Fiction
- Release date
- 1985-02-20
- Studios
- Embassy International Pictures
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Sam Lowry, a low-level bureaucrat, copes with his monotonous existence by imagining himself as a virtuous hero rescuing a beautiful damsel. When he investigates a case in which an innocent man was wrongly arrested and died in place of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he encounters the woman from his daydreams. Trying to help her, Sam becomes entangled in a labyrinth of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy, and lies.
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