Stars: John Neville, Jonathan Pryce, Eric Idle, Oliver Reed, Sting, Uma Thurman, Valentina Cortese, Alison Steadman, Robin Williams, Jack Purvis, Alison Steadman, Sarah Polley, Winston Dennis, Charles McKeown

Director: Terry Gilliam

Summary: A remake of the classic story where Baron Munchausen must prove his reputation as one of history's most remarkable adventurers, or be seen as one of the greatest liars of all time. So, with the help of his four close friends, each one having a special power, he sets out on new adventures.

In TIME BANDITS, director Terry Gilliam told a fantastical story filled with heroes and villains seen through the eyes of a small boy. In BRAZIL, Gilliam focused on a fantasy world created by a young man trapped in a totalitarian state. With THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN, Gilliam tells the legend of an old man who has lived a fairy-tale life. In the late 18th century, the Age of Reason has no room for fantasy. In a town besieged by murderous enemies, a traveling company is putting on a stage show about the apocryphal Baron Munchausen, who, with his motley crew of servants, supposedly circled the globe and the universe, following each bizarre adventure with one even more strange and ludicrous. But then a man appears at the theatre claiming to be the real Baron, and to prove it, he goes off on one final journey to save the town, chased all along the way by the winged specter of death.
Gilliam never met an epic spectacle he didn't like. MUNCHAUSEN is loaded with brilliant set pieces, including spinning heads on the moon and a giant Botticelli clamshell in the bottom of a hellish volcano. Gilliam has assembled a stellar cast, including John Neville as the Baron, Oliver Reed as Vulcan, Jonathan Pryce (BRAZIL), Jack Purvis (Wally in TIME BANDITS), Robin Williams (credited as Ray D. Tutto), Eric Idle (who contributes 'The Torturer's Apprentice' with Michael Kamen to the soundtrack), Charles McKeown (LIFE OF BRIAN), a cameo by Sting, and early appearances by Sarah Polley (as young Sally Salt) and Uma Thurman. Gilliam's special effects bonanza is a modern retelling of THE WIZARD OF OZ, a fabulous adventure filled with daring feats, preposterous nonsense, danger galore, and the overall belief that a world without fantasy is a sad world indeed.

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Aspect Ratio:	1.85 H D Widescreen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region B
Special Features:	Commentary with director Terry Gilliam and co-writer/actor Charles McKeown , 'The Madness and Misadventures of Munchausen': Three part documentary on the making of the film , Storyboard sequences with vocal performances by Terry Gilliam and Charles McKeown
Subtitles:	Croatian, Icelandic, Dutch, Finnish, Romanian, Slovene, Danish, Hebrew, Slovak, Greek, Spanish, Hindi, Czech, Norwegian, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, English, Swedish, Arabic, Turkish, Polish
Year:	1988
Release Date:	April 7, 2008
Runtime:	121 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	S B R 11774
Keywords:	Action, Adventures, Baron, Munchausen, General, Wide, Screen, Fantasy, Adventure
Genre:	Fantasy