The Brothers Grimm [videorecording] / a Dimension Films and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presentation ; a Mosaic Media Group/Daniel Bobker production ; a Terry Gilliam film ; produced by Charles Roven, Daniel Bobker ; written by Ehren Kruger ; directed by Terry Gilliam.
Mill witch -- Little red -- He can't hold his liquor! -- General's amnesty -- Hans and Greta -- Welcome to Marbaden -- Trapper -- Tower in the forest -- Grandmother toad -- Demon horse -- Forest attacks -- Torture chamber -- Real live story -- Gingerbread man -- 12 crypts, 11 girls -- She's still there -- Burn the forest -- Angelika is the twelfth -- Finish the story -- Kiss of true love -- Happily ever after -- End credits.
Summary:
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.
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