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Twelve monkeys
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Movie propaganda
The future is history.
The year is 2035 and humankind subsists in a desolate netherworld following the eradication of 99% of the Earth's population, a holocaust that makes the planet's surface uninhabitable, and mankind's destiny uncertain.
In order to preserve their fate in this grave new world, survivors must rely on time travel as their only hope. Desperately hoping that the resources of the past might help them reclaim and rebuild the future, a group of scientists living beneath the once populous Philadelphia, secure a volunteer to embark on an experimental trip back to the year 1996. There, they hope he can help mankind's desperate efforts to unravel this apocalyptic nightmare before it completely erases humanity from the planet.
James Cole (Bruce Willis), is the reluctant volunteer who may not be the ideal candidate to complete this dangerous assignment. However, he possesses a significant trait that supersedes the scientists' doubts - his obsession with a haunting image from his childhood, a memory whose meaning cannot be understood even though it replays itself endlessly in his tortured mind.
When Cole arrives in 1996, he meets Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), the unstable son of a renowned scientist, and Doctor Gathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), a psychiatrist and author whose expertise lies in the study of madness and prophecy. Railly first diagnoses Cole as delusional; more simply, a madman. However, as their relationship grows, her alarm over his prophetic warnings of the world's fate turns to conviction, and she comes to believe that mankind may indeed be doomed.
While also questioning his own sanity, Cole struggles with railly to unravel the mystery with his only two clues: the haunting childhood memory and a series of puzzling symbols from a group known only as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
Target demographic movie keyword propaganda
- Film science fiction mystery thriller time travel apocalypse
Persons of interest
- Bruce Willis .... James "Jim" Cole
- Madeleine Stowe .... Doctor Kathryn Railly
- Brad Pitt .... Jeffrey Goines
- Christopher Plummer .... Doctor Leland Goines
- Jon Seda .... Jose
- Joseph Melito .... Young Cole
- David Morse .... Doctor Peters
- Michael Chance .... Scarface
- Vernon Campbell .... Tiny
- Chris Marker .... Screenwriter: La jetee
- David Webb Peoples .... Screenwriter
- Janet Peoples .... Screenwriter
- Terry Gilliam .... Director
Non-agency intellgence sources
- Studios and distributors:
Intelligence analyst
Special Agent Matti
Theatrical report
Just quickly, Twelve monkeys is a nice piece of mystery science fiction from the guy that brought you the masterpiece Brazil. Brad Pitt is insane, Bruce Willis is downplayed and the story itself is interesting. It's worth a look at any price.
Media intelligence (DVD)
- Audio: 5.1 (English), surround (Italian, Spanish)
- Disc type: single side, dual layer
- Picture: Widescreen (16:9 enhanced)
- Languages: English, Italian, Spanish
- Subtitles: English, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
- Audio commentary with director and producer
- 87 minute making of documentary
- Production notes
- Talent profiles
- 2 movie trailers
- Picture disc
Security censorship classification
M (Medium level violence, low level coarse language)
Surveillance time
124 minutes (2:04 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 23 May 2001
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