# 12 monos (1995)

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**Original title**: *Twelve Monkeys*
**Runtime**: 129 min
**Genres**: Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery
**Directed by**: Terry Gilliam
**Written by**: David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples
**Starring**: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer, David Morse, Jon Seda

> *The future is history.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Philadelphia, winter, a broken clock ticks. 
A time traveler sits in a mental hospital, a psychiatrist listens, a deadly virus looms. 
Gilliam frames the apocalypse as a puzzle of time and memory.

**Mood tags**: cerebral, dread, mindfuck, paranoid

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.0/10 (676593 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 88% · Metacritic 75/100

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