The Fisher King

Egotistical New York radio shock jock Jack (Jeff Bridges) in his apartment preparing for his TV sitcom audition when he learns, from a TV reporter (Frazer Smith) that his caller “Edwin,” whom he’s encouraged to hate “yuppies,” has become a mass murderer, in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, 1991.

Depressed former radio shock jock Jack (Jeff Bridges), thinking about throwing himself from the Manhattan Bridge, is attacked by thugs (Jayce Bartok, Dan Futterman), then rescued by profane Parry (Robin Williams, his first scene) and his homeless band, in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, 1991.

The opening from director Terry Gilliam and from Richard LaGravanese’s original screenplay, Jeff Bridges as New York shock-jock Jack Lucas, his caller Edwin (Christian Clemenson) providing a critical plot point, in The Fisher King, 1991, with Robin Williams and Mercedes Ruehl.

A feature scene for Mercedes Ruehl in her Academy Award-nominated role, as Anne, employer and girlfriend of former radio star Jack (Jeff Bridges), who’s wondering about the Holy Grail after meeting a visionary vagrant (Robin Williams, not seen), in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, 1991.

Ex-radio shock jock Jack (Jeff Bridges), having learned that his rants led to the murder of the wife of homeless Parry (Robin Williams), finds him around Park Ave. and East 24th in Manhattan, where he turns out to be observing Lydia (Amanda Plummer), in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, 1991.