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30 Years Ago, Terry Gilliam Gave Us A Once-In-A-Lifetime Sci-Fi Epic

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Here's why the 1995 time travel film '12 Monkeys' holds up, and why it may not be the movie you remember.

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The career of Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt got new impulses through this film: 30 years ago, "12 Monkeys" started in the cinemas.Ten years after his grotesque dystopia "Brazil", Terry Gilliam, 85, hit again. On December 29, 1995 his film "12 Monkeys" started in the US cinemas. Again a dark vision of the future, but this time without black humor. But with a twisted time travel plot (then not as sucked out as today), a hopeless love story - and a st…

Polygram/Kobal/Shutterstock (SeaPRwire) – Before the River Song in Doctor Who, and even before LOST, there was 12 Monkeys. Yes, this 1995 sci-fi thriller is known for its pessimistic view of the future and its almost stubbornly deterministic message: you (may) be unable to escape your destiny. Jay Gatsby may have believed the past cannot be relived, but in Terry Gillian's time-traveling film, you can't change it either. Thirty years ago, on Dece…

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Inverse broke the news in United States on Monday, December 29, 2025.
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