The Fisher King R
A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 17 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 7, 2010
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jeff Bridges & Robin Williams | |
Performer: | Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Christian Clemenson & Michael Jeter | |
Directed by | Terry Gilliam | |
Edited by | Lesley Walker | |
Screenwriting by | Richard LaGravenese | |
Composition by | George Fenton | |
Produced by | Debra Hill & Lynda Obst | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Pratt |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1991 -
Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes Ruehl
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
The search for the Holy Grail reaches peak insanity in this wild, redemptive ride through two men's interconnected lives.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 9/10 --
At times loud and brash, at others introvert and delicate, Gilliam has crafted something rather special in this rightfully-beloved film.
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Starburst
Visually impressive, frequently pretentious, and extremely fluid as narrative (the 137 minutes sail by effortlessly), this mythic comedy-drama presents Gilliam as half seer, half snake-oil salesman and defies you to sort out which is which.
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Chicago Reader
...The performances are capable, with Mercedes Ruehl the standout...
Total Film
Rating: 2/5 --
Intense '90s drama has gory violence, mature themes.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 2.5/4 --
There are two terrific performances at the center of The Fisher King, and neither belongs to Robin Williams.
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Creative Loafing
Scary, touching, often hilarious, this modern fairytale is surprisingly enchanting.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a self-obsessed shock jock who thinks he has it all, is about to hit rock bottom. The cult personality spends his time on the radio insulting and berating his listeners, but when one caller takes Jack's advice literally and shoots up a New York City hotspot, Jack is sent swirling down into a depression that has him suicidal three years later. However, he is rescued out of the night by a different kind of knight in shining armor--a homeless man named Parry, played fabulously by Robin Williams, who thinks he's on a quest for the Holy Grail, which he believes to be in a Fifth Avenue town house. Parry serves as the living embodiment of Jack's guilt--Parry's beloved wife was killed in the nightclub massacre. Jack soon becomes conviced that by helping Parry he will also wind up helping himself, so he tries to help Parry win his lady love (Amanda Plummer), at the expense of risking his own relationship with Anne (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Academy Award-winning role), who has stood by his side during his downward spiral.
Terry Gilliam's romantic parable THE FISHER KING is yet another visually stunning work from a master filmmaker, with a different kind of heart from Gilliam's other films, delving deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of character and tragedy. Featuring a terrific cast and unusual locations for a fantasy story (New York City, brilliantly photographed by Roger Pratt), THE FISHER KING is both an exciting adventure and a charming romance.
Terry Gilliam's romantic parable THE FISHER KING is yet another visually stunning work from a master filmmaker, with a different kind of heart from Gilliam's other films, delving deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of character and tragedy. Featuring a terrific cast and unusual locations for a fantasy story (New York City, brilliantly photographed by Roger Pratt), THE FISHER KING is both an exciting adventure and a charming romance.
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