http://www.nbcuniversalstore.com/detail.php?p=15511&SESSID=7f37cd285d3a14f46f3635f6ba763208 Brazil is a 1985 film directed by Terry Gilliam. It was written by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, and Tom Stoppard and stars Jonathan Pryce. The film also features Robert De Niro, Kim Greist, Michael Palin, Katherine Helmond, Bob Hoskins, and Ian Holm. John Scalzi’s Rough Guide to Sci-Fi Movies describes the film as a "dystopian satire". Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), a young man trying to find a woman who appears in his dreams while he is working in a mind-numbing job and living a life in a small apartment, set in a dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained (and rather whimsical) machines. Brazil's bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality, is capitalist[citation needed], rather than communist and lacks a 'Big Brother' figure. Jack Mathews, movie critic and author of The Battle of Brazil (1987), characterized the film as "satirizing the bureaucratic, largely dysfunctional industrial world that had been driving [Gilliam] crazy all his life." Though a success in Europe, the film flopped upon initial release in North America, even with the extra publicity of the fight with the studio. It has since become an important cult film. The film is named after the recurrent theme music Aquarela do Brasil; and has nothing to do with the country of Brazil. Jonathan Pryce - (Sam Lowry) Michael Palin - (Jack Lint) Kim Greist - (Jill Layton) Robert De Niro - (Harry Tuttle) Katherine Helmond - (Ida Lowrey) Ian Holm - (Kurtzman) Ian Richardson - (Warren) Peter Vaughan - (Helpmann) Bob Hoskins - (Spoor) Derrick O'Connor - (Dowser) Charles McKeown - (Lime) Barbara Hicks - (Mrs. Terrian) Kathryn Pogson - (Shirley) Jim Broadbent - (Dr. Jaffe) Jack Purvis - (Dr. Chapman) Bryan Pringle - (Spiro) Sheila Reid - (Mrs. Buttle) Roger Ashto...