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Twelve Monkeys"Twelve Monkeys" trips unpredictably through time, moving backward from a bleak vision of 2035. In that year, as the film begins, civilization has been driven underground by the aftereffects of a terrible plague. All but 1 percent of the world's human population was wiped out in 1996, and now animals prowl through the wreckage of abandoned cities. Below Philadelphia, power belongs to a handful of oddly sinister scientists who have enlisted James Cole (Bruce Willis) as their latest "volunteer".Cole is sent to several different points in time to try and trace the disease to its source. He first arrives in 1990, where his erratic behavior and intimations of disaster are not considered unusual. Almost immediately, he is sent to a mental hospital where he meets Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt). Dr. Kathryn Railly (Madeleine Stowe) is assigned to analyse Cole. At first, she believes him to be delusional, but is around him long enough to realise that his symptoms are not so easily diagnosed or dismissed.
Brad Pitt electrifies Jeffrey with a weird magnetism that becomes important
later in the film, when Jeffrey goes on to lead a guerrilla band of animal-
rights advocates called the Army of the Twelve Monkeys. Meanwhile, Willis
holds the film together with his poignant, battered physicality, the
suffering of a man fighting desperately for sanity and survival.
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