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Twelve Monkeys (1995) 8.1
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Metascore: 74/100
Reviews: 517 user | 148 critic | 20 from Metacritic.com In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. Director:Terry Gilliam |
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Cast
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Michael Chance | ... | |
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Bob Adrian | ... | |
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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. Written by Giancarlo Cairella <vertigo@imdb.com>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
5 January 1996 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$29,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£1,320,430 (UK) (19 April 1996)Gross:
£3,532,343 (UK) (17 May 1996)Company Credits
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James Cole: Jose - psst! Jose, what's going on?
Jose: Bad news, man
James Cole: Volunteers?
Jose: Yeah. And they said your name.
[pause]
Jose: Hey, maybe they'll give you a pardon, man.
James Cole: [sarcastic] Yeah, that's why none of the volunteers come back. They all get a pardon.
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(1967)
Written by Bob Thiele, George David Weiss
Performed by Louis Armstrong
Courtesy of MCA Records
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Terry Gilliam's first choice for the lead role was Jeff Bridges, whom he had enjoyed working with on The Fisher King (1991), but the studio wanted a bigger star, so he cast Bruce Willis. Ironically, Willis had originally auditioned for "The Fisher King", but lost out to Bridges. See more »Goofs
The bandage on Cole's neck reattaches itself. But the shot where it was re-attached happened sometime later (he had slept some due to the shot) so it's very likely that one of the doctors had re-attached it. See more »Quotes
[first lines]James Cole: Jose - psst! Jose, what's going on?
Jose: Bad news, man
James Cole: Volunteers?
Jose: Yeah. And they said your name.
[pause]
Jose: Hey, maybe they'll give you a pardon, man.
James Cole: [sarcastic] Yeah, that's why none of the volunteers come back. They all get a pardon.
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Crazy Credits
The symbol of the 12 Monkeys provides the backdrop for the opening and closing credits. See more »Soundtracks
What a Wonderful World(1967)
Written by Bob Thiele, George David Weiss
Performed by Louis Armstrong
Courtesy of MCA Records
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The big problem is where to begin as this movie needs your attention the forthcoming two hours and you better not miss some minutes for getting a coke as there is a danger you can't follow. But good there is also a pause-button. Bruce Willis must travel into a timemachine to find out some antivirus for a virus that made animals rule over the world in 1996. Thanks to some mistakes he first ends up in 1990, then in the First World War and how messed up it all might look like, Terry Gilliam comes up with what must be one of the most intelligent scripts ever. This ex-Monty Phyton man knows exactly how genius SF-stories has to be told like and his choice of cast couldn't have been any better, there is the lunatic Brad Pitt (his performance in the asylum is memorable) and a superb Bruce Willis who proves he is more than some Schwarzenegger-wanna be. It's a movie you can watch over and over again as the script is so weird and complicated (and yet you can follow) that every view gives you other surprises. One of my big favourites.