1981 - TIME BANDITS, cult fantasy film.

Terry Gilliam and some of his Monty Python pals dreamed up this fantasy film about some dwarfs who steal a map that allows them to travel through time.  The map belongs to the Supreme Being who is after them to get it back.  The dwarfs hook up with an 11 year old boy with their plan being that they will ransack different periods in history for gold.

This is Gilliam's idea of a family film, people are shot, blown up and the film ends with the boy's parents getting blasted.  The film is infused with the Monty Python humor since it was written by Gilliam and Michael Palin and there is plenty of that twisted absurdist goofiness.  Gilliam always had a strong visual sense, especially when it came to fantasy and the film looks very cool.

 

The film has a lot of recognizable English actors, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, David Warner (very amusing as the Devil), Sir Ralph Richardson (as the Supreme Being) and Peter Vaughan.  A couple of of American actors show up as well Katherine Helmond and Shelley Duvall. 

 

The running time is 113 minutes.