The Fisher King (1991)

Jack Lucas is in radiokringen een cultfiguur. Zijn programma wordt druk beluisterd, hoewel hij geen blad voor de mond neemt en hij ontzettend cynische opmerkingen maakt. Jack haat wanhopige mensen. Toch zijn zij het die in zijn programma meestal aan het woord komen. Edwin Malnick is een vaste klant. Wanneer hij verteld dat hij de vrouw van zijn leven ontmoet heeft, slaat Jack met één opmerking die droom aan diggelen. Onder de indruk van Jacks uitspraak vermoord Malnick zeven mensen en pleegt daarna zelfmoord. Dit betekent ook het einde van Jacks carrière. Drie jaar later voelt Jack zich nog steeds verantwoordelij...
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k. Hij piekert, kwelt zichzelf, is berooid en heeft geen vooruitzichten. Hij wordt door de complete catastrofe gered door Parry, de conciërge van God.
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Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges), a self-obsessed shock jock who thinks he has it all, is about to hit rock bottom. The cult personality spends his time on the radio insulting and berating his listeners, but when one caller takes Jack's advice literally and shoots up a New York City hotspot, Jack is sent swirling down into a depression that has him suicidal three years later. However, he is rescued out of the night by a different kind of knight in shining armor--a homeless man named Parry, played fabulously by Robin Williams, who thinks he's on a quest for the Holy Grail, which he believes to be in a Fifth Avenue town h...
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ouse. Parry serves as the living embodiment of Jack's guilt--Parry's beloved wife was killed in the nightclub massacre. Jack soon becomes conviced that by helping Parry he will also wind up helping himself, so he tries to help Parry win his lady love (Amanda Plummer), at the expense of risking his own relationship with Anne (Mercedes Ruehl, in an Academy Award-winning role), who has stood by his side during his downward spiral.

Terry Gilliam's romantic parable The Fisher King is yet another visually stunning work from a master filmmaker, with a different kind of heart from Gilliam's other films, delving deep into the nature of love and loss, of guilt and redemption, of character and tragedy. Featuring a terrific cast and unusual locations for a fantasy story (New York City, brilliantly photographed by Roger Pratt), The Fisher King is both an exciting adventure and a charming romance.
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Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his listeners. One fan in particular takes Jack's rants to heart and goes to a fancy restaurant with a gun, murdering innocent diners. Jack is so distraught at what his on-air suggestion wrought that he sinks into a three-year depression, drinking himself to sleep and mooching off of his girlfriend Anne Napolitano (Mercedes Rue...
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hl, in an Oscar-winning performance), an attractive owner of a video store. Hitting bottom, Jack slumps to the river, prepared to commit suicide. To his rescue comes a crazed but witty homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), who tells Jack he's destined for great things -- all his has to do is find the Holy Grail (conveniently located in mid-town Manhattan) and save Parry's soul. He also wants Jack to help him out with the woman of his dreams, Lydia Sinclair (Amanda Plummer), a shy type who works at a publishing company. Parry was once a university professor became unglued by a tragic event in his past; Jack soon realizes that to save himself, he first must save Parry.
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