Time check

By PETER KEOUGH | September 27, 2012

FILM: Twelve Monkeys (1995). DIRECTOR: Terry Gilliam. WHAT: Sadsack bounced through time to stop a catastrophe. HOW?: Looks unpleasant. WHEN AND WHERE?: From post-apocalyptic 2035 to World War I to a 1990 lock-up, and then. . . . WHAT WE LEARN: No matter what you do, you're fucked.

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