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ambitious "12 Monkeys" was co-authored by David Peoples, who
wrote "Blade Runner," and it has the same view of the near
future as a grunge pit - a view it shares with Gilliam's own
"Brazil." In this world, everything is rusty, subterranean, and
leaks. The movie uses its future world as a home base and
launching pad for the central story, which is set in 1990 and
1996, and is about a time traveler trying to save the world from
a deadly plague.  The traveler is Cole (Bruce Willis), who in
the opening shots lives with a handful of other human survivors
in an underground shelter put together out of scrap parts and a
lot of wire mesh. The surface of the planet has been reclaimed
by animals, after the death of