The Brothers Grimm /

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,...

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Other Authors: Kruger, Ehren, 1972- (Screenwriter), Damon, Matt (Actor), Ledger, Heath, 1979-2008 (Actor), Stormare, Peter (Actor)
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: [United States] : Miramax, [2005]
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Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (118 min.)) : sound, color
Audience:MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for violence, frightening sequences, and brief suggestive material.
Production Credits: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.