This three DVD ultimate collectors edition contains EVERYTHING. (Disc Three includes the 94-minute cut for BRAZIL including the changes that Gilliam refused to make.)Influential and controversial film that is 100 times MORE shocking today, given its wild fantasy/black comedy treatment of a society robbed of all decency (or even efficiency) by a self-destructive war on terrorism. BRAZIL, co written by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy.
"When a bug (literally) gets in the system, an innocent man is killed, leading mild-mannered Sam Lowry (a superb Jonathan Pryce) to reexamine what he wants out of life. He decides to fight the totalitarian system in his search for freedomand the woman he loves. The sharp offbeat cast features Robert De Niro as a renegade heating engineer, Katherine Helmond as Sam's ever-younger mother, Michael Palin as a frightened worker bee terrified of upsetting the status quo, Bob Hoskins as a vengeful Central Services employee, Jim Broadbent as a wacko plastic surgeon, the wonderful Ian Holm as Sam's nerve-ridden, pitiful boss, afraid of his own signature and Kim Greist as the rebel Sam falls for."Disc One: Widescreen - 1.85 Dolby Surround - English Audio Commentary - 1. Terry Gilliam -Director
Disc Two: Widescreen - 1.85 Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - English. Featurette - 1. WHAT IS BRAZIL? Documentary - 1. THE BATTLE OF BRAZIL: A VIDEO HISTORY Production Interviews - 1. Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown- Screenwriters, 2. Norman Garwood - Production Designer, 3. James Acheson - Costume Designer, 4. Michael Kamen - Composer Behind the Scenes Footage Original Theatrical Trailer Storyboard, Publicity and Production Stills
Disc Three: Widescreen - 1.85 Single Side - Single Layer Dolby Surround - English; Audio Commentary - 1. David Morgan -Journalist
