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The Fisher King
Set in a highly-stylized and ultra grim Manhattan, The Fisher King is Terry Gilliam';;s magical reworking of an Arthurian legend. After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. A burned-out, embittered radio deejay finds personal salvation after he is saved from death by a strange vagabond who takes him into a dark, fantastic quest for the Holy Grail.
22 April 1954, New York City, New York, USA
5 May 1955, Western Springs, Illinois, USA
17 March 1958, Humboldt, Iowa, USA
22 August 1962, Chicago, Illinois, USA
24 January 1954, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
3 April 1959, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
8 November 1966, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 August 1921, Columbia, Pennsylvania, USA
23 December 1943, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 12, 2001
So what if it's not perfect? It's magic.
January 26, 2006
Scary, touching, often hilarious, this modern fairytale is surprisingly enchanting.
January 29, 2010
The Fisher King's problems begin with Richard LaGravenese's screenplay and are amplified by Gilliam's showy direction and an unbearably fey performance by Robin Williams.
June 22, 2015
Gilliam exaggerates the romanticism, the grotesquerie, and the personal pain that runs through LaGravenese's story, creating a reality where the more preposterous turns make sense.
July 08, 2015
[Numbers] among the director's masterpieces.
March 26, 2009
The Fisher King has two actors at the top of their form, and a compelling, well-directed and well-produced story.
August 15, 2011
It's sometimes hard to follow the action, but you have a bit of fun trying to figure it all out.
April 07, 2008
Working within the constraints of a big studio film has brought out Gilliam's best: he's become a true storyteller and a wonderful director of actors. This time he delights not only the eye but the soul.
May 20, 2003
For every wild ride through Manhattan by an imaginary Red Knight trailing billows of flame, there is a small, comic encounter in a more down-to-earth mode.
January 29, 2010
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.
August 09, 2016
Intense '90s drama has gory violence, mature themes.