1981 | United Kingdom | Fiction

Time Bandits

  • English 116 mins
  • Director | Terry Gilliam
  • Writer | Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
  • Producer | Terry Gilliam

STATUS: Released

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In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time travelers. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they plunder treasure from Napoleon (Ian Holm) and Agamemnon (Sean Connery)—but the Evil Genius (David Warner) is watching their every move. Featuring a darkly playful script by Gilliam and his Monty Python cohort Michael Palin (who also appears in the film), Time Bandits is at once a giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire of technology gone awry.

Adventure Fantasy Humor Imagination Quest
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The Criterion Collection
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