Post by FRANK the giant bunny on Mar 24, 2011 16:52:20 GMT -5
12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam, and starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt. James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a convicted criminal living in a grim post-apocalyptic future. In 1996–1997, the Earth's surface was contaminated by a virus so deadly that it forced the surviving population to live underground. To earn a pardon, Cole allows scientists to send him on dangerous missions to the past to collect information on the virus, thought to be released by a terrorist organization known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. If possible, he is to obtain a pure sample of the original virus so a cure can be made. There, he encounters Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt), a fellow mental patient with animal rights and anti-consumerist leanings whose father is a renowned virologist.