Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) is a daydreaming everyman who finds himself caught in the soul-crushing gears of a nightmarish bureaucracy – and inadvertently becomes an enemy of the state.
This cautionary tale by Terry Gilliam is one of the great genre films of the 1980s and has come to be esteemed alongside antitotalitarian works by the likes of George Orwell. An imaginative Yuletide sci-fi masterpiece, Brazil presents a ho-ho-horrifying, darkly comedic dystopian vision of the future which acts as the perfect antidote to the saccharine sentiment of the holiday season.