Brazil (1985)  Jim Broadbent plays Dr. Lewis Jaffe   Also starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin
	"It's only a state of mind but we're all in it together"

Plot Summery:  This chilling black comedy is a surrealistic nightmare vision of a "perfect" future where technology reigns supreme.  Everyone is monitored by a secret government agency that forbids love to interfere with efficiency.  When a daydreaming bureaucrat becomes unwittingly involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mystery woman, he becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions. Terry Gilliam writes and directs.

Patrick's comments: Jim seems to have had a run at playing doctors!  This was the first and in this film he's a plastic surgeon with the goal of keeping his patients looking forever young.  "Faces are a doddle compared to tits and ass.  No hairline" he says.  Broadbent appears in just a couple of scenes but the film is well worth watching for Gilliam's unmistakable imagery and imagination.

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