The Brothers Grimm
(DVD) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005.

Special features: Feature commentary by director Terry Gilliam [optional audio feature]; Deleted scenes [with optional commentary by director Terry Gilliam] (15 min.); Bringing the fairy tale to life [featurette] (17 min.); The visual magic of "The Brothers Grimm" [featurette] (9 min.).

Directors of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel, Nicola Pecorini ; production designer, Guy Hendrix Dyas ; editor, Lesley Walker ; visual effects, Kent Houston ; costume designers, Gabriella Pescucci, Carlo Poggioli ; music, Dario Marianelli.

Matt Damon (Wilhelm Grimm), Heath Ledger (Jacob Grimm), Peter Stormare (Cavaldi), Lena Headey (Angelika), Jonathan Pryce (Delatombe), Tomáš Hanák (Woodsman), Julian Bleach (Letorc), Mackenzie Crook (Hidlick), Richard Ridings (Bunst), Monica Bellucci (Mirror Queen).

19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise to the schemes of Team Grimm, he presents them with a real-life mystery to solve or face the executioner's ax: children in a village have been disappearing--now the brothers' lives depend on finding out why. The charlatans must accept the burden of vanquishing what they claim as real, and find themselves ensnared in a genuinely supernatural crisis in a dark forest, amid fantastical marvels and truly enchanted flora and fauna.

DVD; Region 1 ; Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround sound; widescreen presentation aspect ratio 1.85:1, enhanced for 16x9 televisions.

In English or dubbed French with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired or Spanish; closed-captioned.

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