Filmmaker Focus: Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991) w/ Post-Film Discussion

Name: Filmmaker Focus: Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991) w/ Post-Film Discussion
Start: 2025-12-14T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-14T20:17:00-06:00
Location: 1821 2nd Ave. N. , Birmingham, AL, United States, Alabama 35203

Schedule

Sun Dec 14 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:17 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

1821 2nd Ave. N. , Birmingham, AL, United States, Alabama 35203 | Birmingham, AL

Every screening in our Terry Gilliam Filmmaker Focus Series includes a short introduction and a post screening discussion with UAB Film Professor and Sleep In Cinema co-host Gareth Jones.
Film Synopsis: After shock jock Jack Lucas (Jeff Bridges) inadvertently provokes a caller into murdering a group of innocent people in a Manhattan bar, he grows depressed and turns to booze. As he's about to hit rock bottom, Lucas meets a homeless man named Parry (Robin Williams), whose wife was killed by the caller Lucas pushed to the brink. Mentally scarred by his loss, Parry spends his days searching for the Holy Grail. Lucas, feeling culpable for the poor man's plight, pledges to help him in his quest.