12 Monkeys (1995)

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A prisoner from a plague-devastated 2035 is sent back to trace the origin of the virus.
Medium Film
Year 1995
Creator Terry Gilliam
Runtime 129 min
Mode Fiction
IMDb tt0114746
Reviewed 2026-07-26

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Terry Gilliam’s film, written by David and Janet Peoples, takes its premise from Chris Marker’s 1962 short La Jetée. Brad Pitt was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Cole’s childhood memory of a man shot at an airport turns out to be his own death, witnessed before he understood it. The loop is closed at the start and only revealed at the end.

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Told from inside a mind the film keeps inviting you to distrust — the asylum framing means every temporal claim is also a question about sanity.

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