Brewster McCloud
Summary:
A boy yearns to fly in Robert Altman's whimsical youthquake parable. With the aid of seraphic Louise (Sally Kellerman), owlish Brewster (Bud Cort) constructs a pair of human-size wings in his Houston Astrodome nest to realize his dream. Meanwhile, conservative creeps, including a witchy "Star-Spangled Banner"-belting crone (Margaret Hamilton) and Brewster's skinflint boss ({... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Bud Cort - (Brewster McCloud)
Sally Kellerman - (Louise)
Michael Murphy - (Frank Shaft)
William Windom - (Haskel Weeks)
Shelley Duvall - (Suzanne)
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Review:
Director Robert Altman confounded MGM by following his antiwar hit MASH with this oddball story, in which he mocked Hollywood with nods to The Wizard of Oz and a parody of Steve McQueen's Bullitt, while breaking up the narrative with "interpretive" interjections from an avian lecturer (René Auberjonois), who exhorts the audienc... Continue >>
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