Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

• DirectorTerry Gilliam
• Release20 February 1985
• Genre
  Comedy / Science Fiction
• Duration2h 23m
• Budget$15,000,000
• Revenue$9,953,708
• Rate
  

  7.669
  3556 reviews
• Productions

  Embassy International Pictures