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12 Monkeys

  • Rated R
  • 2hr 9m
  • 75

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Terry Gilliam

Producer:

Charles Roven

Writer:

Chris Marker, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples

Release Date:

Jan 5, 1996

Runtime:

2hr 9m

Synopsis

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.

Cast

  • Joseph Melito
  • Bruce Willis
  • Jon Seda
  • Michael Chance
  • Vernon Campbell
  • H. Michael Walls
  • Bob Adrian
  • Simon Jones
  • Madeleine Stowe
  • Brad Pitt

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Metacritic

75
metacritic
Based on 20 Critics
8.6

USER SCORE (544)

Universal acclaim based on 544 Reviews
100

Gilliam keeps the audience guessing, and in doing so creates a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness cloaked in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller.

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Metacritic review by Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
60

Brad Pitt has fun with his secondary part as a pontificating lunatic, but I wish I'd enjoyed the rest of the cast more.

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Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
75

Any laughs that it inspires will be very hollow. It's more of a celebration of madness and doom, with a hero who tries to prevail against the chaos of his condition, and is inadequate.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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