Product Description: When new yorks 1 shock dee-jay loses his job he is plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors a homeless history professor who lives in a world of fantasy. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Robin Williams Jeff Bridges Run time: 138 minutes Rating: R Director: Terry Gilliam
Amazon.com essential video: Arthurian mythology and modern day decay seem perfect complements to each other in this Terry Gilliam drama/comedy/fantasy. Shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) makes an off-handed radio remark that causes a man to go on a killing spree, leaving Lucas unhinged with guilt. Lucas's later, chance meeting with Parry (Robin Williams), a homeless man suffering from dementia, gets him involved in the unlikely quest for the Holy Grail. The rickety, and patently unrealistic stand that insanity is just a wonderful place to be, and that the homeless are all errant knights, wears awfully thin, but there are numerous moments of sad grace and violent beauty in this film. The screenplay by Richard LaGravenese launched his successful career and his smart wordplay helped garner Mercedes Ruehl an Oscar as Lucas's girlfriend. --Keith Simanton
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Rating: - The Fisher King
Directed by Terry Gilliam....Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Amanda Plummer, and Mercedes Reuhl combine their awesome talents to create a remarkable modern-day dark fable of love and adventure in Manhattan's. ... Read More
Rating: - Good Things Take Hard Work
This movie merits consideration by anyone who is looking for a thoughtful, yet entertaining vehicle for entertainment. The production and script are outstanding, and I am sure you will find good coverage of ... Read More
Rating: - wonderful film
A strangley realistic seeming film because it involves homeless and poor people and psychology yet includes the wondrous element of hope. Great flick.
Rating: - Superb
The Fisher King [1991]
Dvd ~ Jeff Bridges
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Superb, 30 Dec 2007
Superb. There have been very few movies that I can say, ... Read More
Rating: - Uneven, cutesy in parts, Williams overacts again
Generally unbelievable film about a man's dissolution and redemption. Jeff Bridges does a magnificent job with the material; unfortunately, Robin Williams is miscast as a crazy person (who has gone crazy by ... Read More
- The Fisher King
- Uneven, cutesy in parts, Williams overacts again