12 Monkeys/Mercury Rising/The Jackal [3 Discs]

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 3
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo

AWARDS

• Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

•     Nominated Best Costume Design - 1995 (Julie Weiss)
•     Nominated Best Supporting Actor - 1995 (Brad Pitt)

• Hollywood Foreign Press Association

•     Won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pictu - 1995 (Brad Pitt)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Bruce Willis - Art Jeffries
       Alec Baldwin - Nicholas Kudrow
       Brad Pitt - Jeffrey Goines
       Chi McBride - Tommy B. Jordan
       David Morse - Dr. Peters
       J.K. Simmons - Witherspoon
       Bodhi Elfman - Leo Pedranski
       Carrie Preston - Emily Lang
       L.L. Ginter - Peter Burrell
       Jack Black - Ian Lamont
       John Cunningham - Donald Brown
       David Hayman - Terek Murad
       Kelley Hazen - Jenny Lynch
       John Doman - Supervisor Hartley
       Richard Riehle - Edgar Holstrom
       Aaron Michael Lacey - WWI Sergeant

• Director:

  Terry Gilliam, Harold Becker, Michael Caton-Jones

• Producer:

  Charles Roven, Brian Grazer, Karen Kehela, Michael Caton-Jones, Sean Daniel, Kevin Jarre, James Jacks

• Screenwriter:

  David Peoples, Janet Peoples, Lawrence Konner, Mark Rosenthal

• Book Author:

  Ryne Douglas Pearson

• Screenwriter:

  Chuck Pfarrer

• Play Author:

  Kenneth Ross

• Screen Story:

  Chuck Pfarrer

• Cinematographer:

  Roger Pratt, Michael Seresin, Michael Sersen, Karl Walter Lindenlaub

• Composer (Music Score):

  Paul Buckmaster

• Songwriter:

  Tom Waits

• Composer (Music Score):

  John Barry, Carter Burwell

• Editor:

  Mick Audsley, Peter Honess, Jim Clark

• Production Designer:

  Jeffrey Beecroft, Patrizia Von Brandenstein, Michael White

• Art Director:

  William Ladd Skinner, Steve Saklad, James F. Truesdale, John Fenner, Ricky Eyres

• Co-producer:

  Lloyd Phillips, Paul Neesan, Maureen Peyrot

• Associate Producer:

  Mark Egerton, Kelley Smith-Wait, Tom Mack

• Executive Producer:

  Robert Kosberg, Robert Cavallo, Gary Levinsohn, Ric Kidney, Joseph M. Singer, Terence A. Clegg, Mark Gordon, Hal Lieberman

• Set Designer:

  Crispian Sallis, Karen Fletcher, Maria Nay, Andrew Menzies, Jeff Adam, Kate J. Sullivan

• Costume Designer:

  Julie Weiss, Betsy Heimann, Albert Wolsky

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Jay Meagher, Kim Ornitz, David John

• Makeup:

  Christine Beveridge

• Special Effects:

  Shirley Montefusco, Vincent Montefusco, Syd Dutton, Illusion Arts, Bill Taylor

• First Assistant Director:

  Mark Egerton, Philip A. Patterson, Tom Mack, Bill Westley

• Animator:

  Industrial Light & Magic

• Camera Operator:

  Craig Haagensen

• Stunts:

  Chuck Jeffreys

• Casting:

  Margery Simkin, Nancy Klopper, Ellen Chenoweth

• Conductor:

  Paul Buckmaster

• Sound Editor:

  Robin Clarke

• Special Effects Supervisor:

  Industrial Light & Magic, Michael Owens

• Foley Artist:

  Kevin Bartnof

• Special Effects Technician:

  Donald Myers

REVIEWS:

• Despite its star power and bulging budget, this is not your typical Hollywood action suspense thriller. Instead, it's a shade darker with a well-written script rife with conspiracy conjecture. Bruce Willis' pairing with a child prodigy actor was perhaps a foreshadowing of 1999's immensely successful The Sixth Sense. The young Miko Hughes gives a remarkable performance as Simon, Willis' autistic charge, and he and the Hollywood star work well together. While the story is not without holes, the film's bullet train pace offers little time to ponder them and the plot culminates cohesively. Alec Baldwin wades deep into his hard-boiled character and does particularly unforgettable work in a priceless tete-a-tete scene he shares with Willis. Harold Becker's keen adaptation of Ryne Douglas Peterson's Simon Says is also of great help to the film, as is Becker's use of the murky streets of Chicago, which underscores the shadowy content of the narrative. When all is said and done, Mercury Rising is a thoroughly plausible suspense thriller in which the stars don't outshine the story.
  
  
  
  ~ Mike DiBella, Rovi
• Inspired by Chris Marker's benchmark 1962 short film La Jetee, director Terry Gilliam continues his examination of the real versus the surreal in this mind-bending piece of science fiction. In a vein typical of Gilliam's oeuvre, the film leaps through time almost at will, which produces uneven results. Obviously a play on genre conventions, 12 Monkeys succeeds at creating its various worlds (all with various degrees of grunge and gloom). However, the film spirals off in so many directions it's sometimes a trial to keep track -- but it's also this very quality that keeps it interesting and engaging. Very much a visceral film above all else, Gilliam extracts solid turns from his actors, including a nicely understated Bruce Willis and a cheerfully (and entertainingly) manic Brad Pitt, a surprise Oscar nominee for his supporting role. Almost ten years after the highly publicized director vs. studio debacle with the director's acclaimed 1985 film Brazil, Gilliam and Universal had obviously patched things up, as they distributed this film to great financial success and a place as one of the leading cult favorites of the 1990s. ~ Jason Clark, Rovi