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	The Fisher King (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fisher King is a movie from 1991 written by Richard LaGravenese and directed by Terry Gilliam.
		Parry is on a mission to find the Holy Grail, and tries to convince Lucas to help him; Lucas is initially reluctant, but comes to feel responsible for Parry when he learns that the man's condition is a result of witnessing his wife's death at the hands of Lucas's psychotic caller.
		The title refers to the legend, which Parry recounts to Lucas, of the Fisher King, who guarded the Holy Grail and was healed by Percival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Fisher_King_(movie) (290 words)

	ALAN DALE \| What We Do Best: American Movie Comedies of the 1990s
		The Fisher King has a fair share of slapstick but the script makes a bigger leap to what is for us now a stranger form: medieval romance.
		The Fisher King isn’t bookish, which, paradoxically, is one of the things it has in common with Wolfram’s Parzival.
		As Tom Shippey pointed out in his review of The Fisher King, "[R]omances ride plot dislocations far better than novels." 9 This freedom permits the script to develop both action-oriented and amorous throughlines, which is to say that both heroes have their damsels.
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	The Fisher King (movie): Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about The Fisher King (movie) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fisher King is a 1991 film starring Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams and Mercedes Ruehl[?].
		Bridges and Williams play two men whose lives were shattered, in different ways, by a spree killing[?] in a restaurant, who meet when Williams' character (now a delusional street person on a quest to recover the Holy Grail) rescues Bridges' character from a band of muggers.
		The movie was written by Richard LaGravenese[?] and directed by Terry Gilliam.
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		Of course, the point of "The Fisher King" story is clear: the single minded pursuit of personal satisfaction (i.e., egoism) is doomed to failure.
		Finally, while the movie has much to recommend it for analytical purposes, Gilliam's storytelling ability and eye for stunning visuals should help to captivate the students' attention throughout the course of the movie.
		In the end, THE FISHER KING is an engaging movie-- intellectually, aesthetically, and emotionally.
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	Dreams: The Fisher King
		The Fisher King is a romantic fantasy set in New York City at the end of the twentieth century.
		The Fisher King is a dramatic comedy that concerns one man's attempt to redeem himself from a life of fatal cynicism through his unlikely alliance with a visionary street person.
		The Fisher King is the guardian of the Holy Grail, which, in medieval legends, is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper and which was used to collect drops of his blood at the Crucifixion.
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	Lamhfada: Reviews: Spring 2000: "The Fisher King"
		The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges, is one of those rare movies that gets better with every viewing.
		The story has a long history, beginning, according to scholars like James Frazer and Jessie Weston, as a fertility myth in which the dying king must be killed and replaced with a younger one in order to ensure the continued fecundity of the earth.
		The Fisher King applies the story to the alienation and isolation of modern life; its wasteland is psychological, and exists within the minds of the two main characters.
	www.lamhfada.com /reviews/reviewSpring2000.shtml (571 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Hollywood's Holy Grail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		...For a movie in which the Coen brothers say Hollywood is a "secondary issue," "almost the cheapest part," and "not really what we were interested in," Barton Fink overflows with Hollywood icons and folklore...
		...Eliot as source of the title, plan, and much of the symbolism of his The Waste Land-the deeply symbolic Fisher King, sometimes old, sometimes dead, sometimes merely wounded, is a creature "semi-divine, semi-human, standing between his people and land and the unseen forces which control their destiny...
		...according to which the Fisher King has a vision and is told he is to be keeper of the Holy Grail-the chalice from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper-"so that it shall heal the hearts of men...
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	Encyclopedia: The Fisher King (movie)
		Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general.
		The Fisher King is a figure in Arthurian folklore, sometimes held to be the keeper of the Holy Grail.
		Percival or Perceval is one of King Arthurs legendary Knights of the Round Table.
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	Amazon.com: DVD: The Fisher King (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With this movie, Gilliam has deftly crafted a study of the symbiotic existence of mankind and the impact of human nature upon the space we all must share in a world growing smaller day by day.
		With "The Fisher King," Gilliam has given us a wonderfully textured morality tale, both entertaining and engaging and rich with metaphor and substance that will endure the test of time, because it is, in the end, a story for the ages.
		The movie is so beautiful because it shows how one homeless man changes a once rich man. Parry transforms Jack into a kind and loving man, whereas at the start, he was a mean, arrogant, snob.
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	The Fisher King (movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fisher King is a movie from 1991 written by and directed by Terry Gilliam.
		Roger Ebert characterized the film as "a disorganized, rambling and eccentric movie that contains some moments of truth, some moments of humor, and many moments of digression." Other reviewers commented on its "industrial-strength whimsy" and said it "is far from being a disaster."
		Jack Lucas, a talk radio host (Bridges), becomes suicidally despondent after his on-air comments inadvertently prompt a psychotic caller to commit multiple murders.
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	Intelliflix: Rent Fisher King, The on DVD
		And so the amazing story of the Fisher King unfolds - a modern quest for redemption and the Holy Grail, filled with humor, heartbreak and ravishing romance.
		I thought Gilliam's previous movies were interesting/weird, but The Fisher King really pulled on some of my heart strings.
		The rise and fall of Parry (Robin Williams) during the middle of the movie illustrated how one's own emotional perceptions/fears (exemplified by the red knight) made him more susceptible to bad things happening to him.
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	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fisher King at Epinions.com
		My main problem with Gilliam, however, is that it isn't a movie by movie hit or miss situation with him.
		Within each movie he has directed (Brazil, Time Bandits, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen to name a few) there is a brilliant genius throughout that keeps being undermined by Gilliam's self-destructive sabotage of his own work.
		At once, this movie is one of my most and least favorite movies of all time.
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	Movie Review - Fisher King, The - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It takes a lot for a movie to really wow me. The Fisher King set me up, bowled me over, and didn't even bother to reset me. The plot: A Howard Stern-like radio personality (Jack, played by Jeff Bridges) gives some snide words against yuppies to a regular caller.
		The movie has many giggle points, although many of them are guilty giggles.
		In what's meant to be one of the most poignant scenes in the movie (as well as one of the few times Perry's truly lucid), I was somewhat distracted with a thought that consisted primarily of "DAMN.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=2152&reviewer=142 (519 words)

	DVD : The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fisher King is played here by Robin Williams, a former college professor at Hunter College, who's wife is murdered.
		The Fisher King is a movie that I greatly enjoyed rewatching a couple of nights ago.
		You have to think about the themes in the movie and think about each character and their personalities in order to enjoy it to the fullest.
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	deseretnews.com - Movie review: The Fisher King \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		And so it is with "The Fisher King," the first film Gilliam has directed without developing the script himself.
		For me, the most annoying aspect of "The Fisher King" is its penchant for extreme highs followed by extreme lows — with very little room for middle emotions in between.
		"The Fisher King" is rated R for violence, profanity, nudity, sex, vulgarity and drugs.
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	Fisher King Movie Search
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		Movies like Fisher King may be good for a break from life, but burning excess energy by cleaning the house or taking a walk will leave you in a better state of mind.
		Then when you are ready to relax, Fisher King will be there waiting for you.
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	The Fisher King's clumsy fantasy plot falls flat
		The Fisher King opens with Jack Lucas, New York City's most popular shock DJ (adequately played by Jeff Bridges), engaging in verbal battles with the callers of his hit radio talk show.
		At one point, Parry tells Jack the legend of the Fisher King, a ruler whose world was collapsing around him until a fool was able to show him how to satisfy his goals, in case anyone in the audience couldn't see well into the next reel.
		The Fisher King seems to use Parry's imaginings of the Grail and his hallucinations of a Red Knight as a clumsy, and often unnecessary, means of paralleling the story with a medieval quest.
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	Terry Gilliam's Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		he story of the Fisher King begins when the king is a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king.
		Now being a fool he was simple-minded; he didn't see a king, he only saw a man alone and in pain.
		As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed.
	www.uidaho.edu /student_orgs/arthurian_legend/grail/fisher/texts/modern/movie.htm (333 words)

	MCN: King Arthur
		However anthropologically accurate King Arthur may or may not be, it turns out to be as much of a swoony valentine to a social ideal that never existed as any other Arthurian text.
		Historians have thought for centuries that King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend was based on a real hero, torn between his private ambitions and his public sense of duty.
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	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In The Fisher King, screenplay writer Richard LaGravenese retools this medieval legend by setting it in modern day New York City.
		Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams are convincing as two wayward souls who meet when they are both at the end of their ropes.
		Like the Fisher King, they are wounded and suffering.
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	The fisher king Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports!
		Basically in the story a fire tells a king that he is “the keeper of the holy grail so that it may heal the hearts of men”.
		The king is more focused on power and glory and so he reaches into the fire to grab the Holy Grail, leaving him only with a wound.
		The king asks for a cup of water and the beggar fills up the cup and as the king drinks it his wound heals.
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	The Fisher King Movie: The Fisher King DVD is available from Bestprices.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		THE FISHER KING marked the first time Terry Gilliam directed a film written by someone else; he said he wanted to do that to prove to himself that he was a film director, not just a filmmaker.
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	Movie Review - Fisher King, The - eFilmCritic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If you want to go a step further down the often unlit staircase of movie appreciation and enjoy the social commentary on the plight of homeless people, Fisher King is the film to see.
		And if you want to make the leap into the dark pools of fantasy and symbolism, then Fisher King is the springboard from which you should dive.
		Whatever level you want to enjoy this movie on, it will be one of the greatest cinematic experiences of your life.
	efilmcritic.com /review.php?movie=2152&reviewer=142 (702 words)

	The Fisher King (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While this movie is not Gilliam's best, I found it very entertaining.
		As others have pointed out, this movie tries to be so many things - funny, touching, sad, fantastic, zany, etc. What I found amusing is that some people used this fact as a good thing, and other said it was a bad thing.
		Well, yes, this movie is uneven, and the tone of the movie shifts frequently, so if you don't like that kind of movie, don't see this one.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0101889 (353 words)

	The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Surprisingly, The Fisher King's ultimate problem is not that these divergent goals stumble awkwardly into one another; almost everyone involved works admirably to negotiate the entire range of tones suggested in the writing.
		The plot of The Fisher King is too strange to elaborate much further without ruining the momentum of the film, a misdeed that Gilliam himself commits about twenty minutes before the movie's conclusion.
		The courtship between the two is a little too forced, but the actors, like the movie, are charming enough in their weirdness to pull the scenes off.
	www.people.cornell.edu /pages/nkd4/fishking.html (748 words)

	‘The Fisher King’ (R)
		Terry Gilliam's "The Fisher King" is an odd beast.
		"Fisher" has two redemption stories, in which jaded disc jockey Jeff Bridges and traumatized drifter Robin Williams attempt to save each other.
		At dinner in a Chinese restaurant, she and Williams work up an amusing tango of clumsiness, as they battle treacherous chopsticks and slippery meat dumplings.
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	DVD Verdict Review - The Fisher King
		However, I firmly believe this movie belongs there, which is probably why I love it so much—that and the outstanding performances all the way around.
		While a lot of the key points of the movie were shot outside at night, the transfer never suffered.
		She has worked sporadically since this film, with only one memorable performance since (Lost in Yonkers), but she has three movies set for this year, and so I remain hopeful that she can rekindle the magic she shows here.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/fisherking.php (976 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Fisher King (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		October 2, 1991 -- ``The Fisher King'' is a modern, eccentric and imaginative retelling of the legend of the Holy Grail.
		Gilliam should be given credit for doing a better job than he has in past films of keeping ``The Fisher King'' under control.
		It rates a B. Click here for links to places to buy this movie in video and/or DVD format, the soundtrack, books, even used videos, games and lots of other stuff.
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	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Would you recommend the movie The Fisher King?
		Movies > General Discussion > Would you recommend the movie The Fisher King?
		At the time I saw it he was still "constructing" that personna that he's got today (well, I know he's going evil but I mean the films before).
		I was amazed and thought of it as being a movie by a superior mind.
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	The Fisher King Movie Review
		THE FISHER KING also touches on that theme, but at heart, it is a film about retribution and redemption, in the most traditional senses: retribution for sin, and redemption from evil.
		As you might gather from the title, the device about which the plot revolves is a modern day retelling of the myth of the Fisher King and the Holy Grail.
		While THE FISHER KING is not an overtly religious movie, it is very concerned with morality -- the master-stroke of the plot is that myth and everyday life gradually form a seemless blend, and the dramatic force of the movie comes from these entwined elements.
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