Stars: Madeline Stowe, Bruce Willis, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, Frank Gorshin, John Seda, Lisa Gay Hamilton

Director: Terry Gilliam

Summary: A nightmare journey between a holocaustic future of 2035 and the past is the mission faced by volunteer Cole. He must find the source of the viral infection responsible for the deaths of five billion people which started in 1996. Includes the 90 minute documentary 'Hamster Factor'.

When a man enters a hospital claiming to have journeyed back in time from the year 2025 to stop a killer virus from exterminating mankind, a beautiful psychologist decides he might be more than delusional. Terry Gilliam populates this labyrinthine, apocalyptic film with twisted characters and eerie revelations. The film was shot primarily in Philadelphia; Gilliam uses the more dilapidated area of the city to the film's apocalyptic advantage. The film is based on the 1962 French short film LA JETEE. The Signature Laserdisc includes a feature on the film's making.

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Inspired by Chris Marker's acclaimed short film La Jetée, 12 Monkeyscombines intricate, intelligent storytelling with the uniquely imaginative vision of director Terry Gilliam. The story opens in the wintry wasteland of the year 2035, where a virulent plague has forced humans to live in a squalid, oppressively regimented underground. Bruce Willis plays a societal outcast who is given the opportunity to erase his criminal record by "volunteering" to time-travel into the past to obtain a pure sample of the deadly virus that will help future scientists to develop a cure. But in bouncing from 1918 to the early and mid-1990s, he undergoes an ordeal that forces him to question his own perceptions of reality. Caught between the dangers of the past and the devastation of the future, he encounters a psychiatrist (Madeleine Stowe) who is initially convinced he's insane, and a wacky mental patient (Brad Pitt in a twitchy Oscar-nominated role) with links to a radical group that may have unleashed the deadly virus. Equal parts mystery, tragedy, psychological thriller, and apocalyptic drama, 12 Monkeysranks as one of the best science fiction films of the 1990s, boosted by Gilliam's visual ingenuity and one of the finest performances of Willis's career. --Jeff Shannon

Aspect Ratio:	Full Screen, 1.85 Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	The Hamster Factor And Other Tales Of The Twelve Monkeys Documentary
Year:	1995
Release Date:	September 20, 1999
Runtime:	124 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	051 920 2
Keywords:	Action, Monkeys, General, Wide, Screen, Fiction, Science, Twelve, Tv, Horror, Adventure, Futuristic, Sci, Fi
Genre:	Futuristic