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Birdy

1984, Movie, R, 120 mins

BIRDY
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BIRDY is one of those rare movies that successfully brings a psychological novel to the screen without sacrificing its saliency or complexity. Although the book by William Wharton is set in the days after WWII, the film has been updated to the post-Vietnam era to tell the story of the deep friendship between Birdy (Modine) and Al Columbato (Cage), a pair of young men whose lives have been scarred by the war experience. Birdy has had an obsessive affinity for birds since chi... read more leave a comment
Year: 1984
Rated R

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Cast
Matthew Modine: Birdy
Nicolas Cage: Al Columbato
John Harkins: Dr. Weiss
Sandy Baron: Mr. Columbato
Karen Young: Hannah Rourke
Bruno Kirby: Renaldi

 

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Question: Can you tell me who played Mr. Hall (the flying man) on Ally McBeal and what show he used to be on?


Answer: You mean the Mr. Hall who winged it across the river and collapsed of a heart attack so that narcissist Ally (Calista Flockhart) could once again make someone else's tragedy all about her? (No doubt it was only the belief that a better script lay across the river that kept the poor man aloft, and the disappointment at finding it wasn't there laid him low.) And did I mention that whole flying plot was ripped off from William Wharton's far superior book Birdy (though since no one in Hollywood reads, Kelley and Co. probably cribbed it from Alan Parker's movie version, which definitely had its moments, too)?

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