Brewster McCloud (1970)

Cast

Margaret Hamilton
as Daphne Heap
Shelley Duvall
as Suzanne Davis
Bud Cort
as Brewster McCloud
Stacy Keach
as Abraham Wright

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Genres & Description

Comedy Fantasy

7.0 / 10

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans. When the fateful day arrives, and he enters the dome with his fanciful construction of bird wings, Brewster is surrounded by the police. Will he be caught before he attempts to fly?

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65wiseman

Shelly Duvall has perhaps the ugliest mouth in films! - @Friday, June 29, 2018 2:58 AM

Wesley Leggett

This isn't difficult to find. Try Amazon. I was privileged to be on the set during the filming of a few scenes. The guy I was working for was asked by Adler to supply some props. We asked if a visit was allowed, and he said sure, come by Thursday, that's when they are filming the nude scenes. Altman, noticing a few strays, (us) and threatened to clear the set if he had to do a retake (he didn't). During the take we hid behind a flat to avoid interfering. Good memories. - @Tuesday, August 29, 2017 10:44 AM

EcoBeaT TV

Why is it so hard to find? Not on DVD? I love Altman. - @Sunday, October 2, 2016 6:11 AM

Ron Wilson

N - @Saturday, July 2, 2016 1:03 AM

Paul Sineath

It's funny that everyone agrees that not all of Altman's films "worked" or were "good", but no one agrees on which (although everyone seems to uniformly hate Quintet). - @Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:52 PM

GREG FREEMAN

Roert Altman is a true hero of American cinema. He maintained that independant spirit when others sold out to the Hollywood system. Sure, not all worked (such as Popeye) but then he makes films like The Player and Short Cuts which are unlike anyone else's movies. He had a distinct style that could feel like a mess at times with people talking over one another and very strange stories. I even enjoyed his last film The Prairie Home Companion. It was a minor work but had it's own quirky charm with a great cast, including Maya Rudolph. I probably saw Brewster McCloud on HBO and thought it was the strangest films I'd seen up to that time but I did not dilike it. Bud Cort (who is more a character than a great actor) seems to be continuing his Harold character from Harold and Maude (let's see Hollywood try to remake/reboot that) and is the least interesting person in the movie. Sally Kellerman is wonderful as the gardian angel. Altman can be a frustration to those who are slaves to linear stories and contrived conclusions but to us who love risky cinema he is among the best that American cinema had to offer, although his cinematic sentiment seemed to be more European in kin with Godard and other New Wave directors who abandoned those convoluted concepts of plot....they were working from the interior. - @Tuesday, December 24, 2013 12:26 AM

thatmovieguy777

Bud Cort is also in Life Aquatic - @Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:09 AM