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Twelve Monkeys
UNITED STATES · 1995

Twelve Monkeys

Terry Gilliam
time travel pandemic mental illness dystopian future conspiracy
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Synopsis

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son o

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