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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Writers:
Terry Gilliam (written by)
Charles McKeown (written by)
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Release Date:
16 October 2009 (UK) more
Plot:
A traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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(372 articles)
User Comments:
A visually beautiful mess of a tale more (35 total)

Cast

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Johnny Depp ... Tony (1st transformation)

Heath Ledger ... Tony

Colin Farrell ... Tony (3rd transformation)

Jude Law ... Tony (2nd transformation)

Christopher Plummer ... Dr. Parnassus

Lily Cole ... Valentina

Tom Waits ... Mr. Nick

Andrew Garfield ... Anton

Verne Troyer ... Percy

Paloma Faith ... Sally

Quinn Lord ... 9 Year Old Son

Cassandra Sawtell ... Olga

Carrie Genzel ... Journalist

Michael Eklund ... Tony's Aid

Ryan Grantham ... Little Anton

Johnny Harris ... Policeman

Brad Dryborough ... Repulsed Diner
Mark Benton ... Dad
Mackenzie Gray ... Substitute Monk
Simon Day ... Inspector

Ian A. Wallace ... Fourth Monk

Fraser Aitcheson ... Dancing Policeman

Michael Jonsson ... Paramedic #2

Joseph Cintron ... Monk

Peter New ... Paramedic #1

Richard Riddell ... Martin
Vitaly Kravchenko ... Piotr
John Snowden ... Chauffer
Igor Ingelsman ... Gregor
Erika Conway ... Mother at Puppet Show
Richard Shanks ... Martin's Friend
David Smallbone ... Sally's friend #2
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Also Known As:
L'Imaginarium du Docteur Parnassus (France)
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus (International: English title) (alternative spelling)
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violent images, some sensuality, language and smoking.
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122 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Heath Ledger's last movie project. more
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Dr. Parnassus: Voilą!
Tony: Voilą!
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Is it true that Johnny Depp, Jude Law, and Colin Farrell have decided to donate their earnings from this movie to Matilda Ledger?
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14 out of 32 people found the following comment useful.
A visually beautiful mess of a tale, 25 October 2009
3/10
Author: freelancethinkers from Brighton, England

It breaks my heart to have to give a Gilliam film 3 out of ten, but here it is.

I adore the man, and would spawn his children if it were physiologically possible ( and we got on) but I can't defend the complete lack of cohesion and narrative structure in this movie.

Some of the effects are spellbinding, so it's safe to assume that a fair few million has been ploughed into it. Why wasn't some of this diverted into developing the script?

The acting was also terrible, but then you can't make a Prada handbag from a sackcloth. Or something. Even Heath Ledger, God rest his soul, couldn't rescue a script this bad, and it's lamentable that this is his last feature.

The vast majority of the film passes without the introduction of a storyline, and when it does it is almost as an apology. It felt to me like I was watching footage from the cutting room floor, from disc 2 of the DVD, and that somewhere out there is a really good movie from the stuff that actually made it!

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