Twelve Monkeys The Complete Series
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
Terry Gilliam’s ambitious “12 Monkeys” was co-authored by David Peoples, who wrote “Blade Runner,” and it has the same view of the near future as a grunge pit – a view it shares with Gilliam’s own “Brazil.” In this world, everything is rusty, subterranean, and leaks. The movie uses its future world as a home base and launching pad for the central story, which is set in 1990 and 1996, and is about a time traveler trying to save the world from a deadly plague.
The traveler is Cole (Bruce Willis), who in the opening shots lives with a handful of other human survivors in an underground shelter put together out of scrap parts and a lot of wire mesh. The surface of the planet has been reclaimed by animals, after the death of 5 billion people during a plague in 1996.
Cole is plucked from his cage and sent on a surface expedition by the rulers of this domain, who hope to learn enough about the plague virus to defeat it. Later, he is picked for a more crucial mission: He will travel back in time and gather information about the virus before it mutated. (The movie holds out no hope that he can “stop” it before it starts; from his point of view, the plague has already happened, and so the future society is seeking treatment, not prevention.) Cole lands in 1990, bruised, bleeding, and dripping sweat and mucus from every pore (a large percentage of Bruce Willis’ film career has been spent in this condition). He’s thrown in jail, and assigned a psychiatrist, Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe), who believes he’s delusional when he says he’s a visitor from the future (“You won’t think I’m crazy when people start dying next month”). He pulls off an inexplicable jail break and reappears in her life in 1996, kidnapping her because he needs help in finding 12 monkeys in Philadelphia that have the virus in its “pure” form before it mutated, later that year, into a killer of humans.
Cole discovers that a mental patient named Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), whom he met in 1990, is an animal rights activist with a father (Christopher Plummer) whose laboratory may be harboring the deadly virus. Does Jeffrey want to unleash the virus, returning the earth to the animals? Or does his father, or another member of the team . . .
All of this is just the plumbing of the plot. What the movie is really about is its vision. The decor looks cobbled together from the debris of the 20th century. Cities are either scabby Skid Rows or towering skyscrapers. Scientists still work in laboratories that look like old postcards of Thomas Edison inventing. Bizarre killers and villains are hurled at Cole and Railly, and there are many bloody fights. Gradually the psychiatrist comes to believe, after Cole makes a series of accurate predictions, that he may be from the future after all.
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 1.22 Pounds
Audio Description: : English
Media Format : NTSC, DVD
Run time : 34 hours and 50 minutes
Release date : July 14, 2020
Actors : Aaron Stanford, Amanda Schull
Subtitles: : English
Studio : Mill Creek Entertianment
ASIN : B086PVL47J
Country of Origin : USA
Number of discs : 8
