The fourth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1989 features the year’s biggest flop, Terry Gilliam’s The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. Directed and co-written by Gilliam and starring John Neville, Sarah Polley and Eric Idle, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen had a troubled production and a truncated release, but went on to critical acclaim and cult success.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-adventures-of-baron-munchausen-1989), Hal Hinson in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/theadventuresofbaronmunchausenpghinson_a0a8f0.htm), and Sheila Benson in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-03-05-ca-566-story.html).