Terry Gilliam's imaginative Orwellian view of the future is both funny and bleak. Co-scripted by Gilliam (the animator and invisible member of the Monty Python team) and playwright Tom Stoppard, the film visualises a future totalitarian state where bureaucracy has gone mad, government offices are connected by a network of pneumatic tubes and apartment blocks are grey and uniform. A stuff-up occurs at the Ministry of Information, which targets a terrorist named Harry Tuttle (De Niro), but mistakenly arrests someone named Mr. Buttle instead. Sam Lowry (Pryce), a civil servant, spots this mistake in the paperwork and attempts to rectify it. This gets him into trouble with the state and he decides to fight the system and search for the mysterious woman of his dreams (Griest). Other wacky characters include Mr. Kurtzman (Ian Holm), Sam's nervous boss who is afraid of his own signature, Dr. Jaffe (Jim Broadbent), the plastic surgeon who performs operations on Sam's mother (Katherine Helmond), Spoor (Hoskins), a vengeful employee and Jack Lint (Palin), a subservient worker. The title refers to the song which is played throughout much of the film and symbolises Sam's dreams of a better life. The film won the Los Angeles Film Critics award for best film.