TY - ADVS AU - Cleese,John AU - Connery,Sean AU - Duvall,Shelley AU - Gilliam,Terry AU - Holm,Ian AU - Richardson,Ralph ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Time bandits T2 - The Criterion collection SN - 1604659335 PY - 2014///] CY - [Place of publication not identified] PB - [Publisher not identified] KW - Boys KW - Drama KW - Dwarfs KW - Time travel KW - Action and adventure films KW - lcgft KW - Feature films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 1981; Special features: Audio commentary featuring Gilliam, cowriter/actor Michael Palin, and actors John Cleese, David Warner, and Craig Warnock; New piece narrated by film writer David Morgan and featuring production designer Milly Burns and costume designer James Acheson on the creation of the film's various historical periods and fantasy worlds; Conversation between Gilliam and film scholar Petervon Bagh at Finland's Midnight Sun Film Festival in 1998; Excerpt from a 1981 appearance by actor Shelley Duvall on Tom Snyder's Tomorrow show; trailer; Plus: An essay by critic David Sterritt; Ralph Richardson, Shelley Duvall, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, David Warner, Katherine Helmond, Peter Vaughan; Rating: PG N2 - A boy named Kevin escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time-traveling dwarves. Armed with a map stolen from the Supreme Being, they plunder treasure from Napoleon and Agamemnon; but Evil is watching their every move. A giddy fairy tale, a revisionist history lesson, and a satire on technology gone awry ER -