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Director: Robert Altman
Cast: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, William Windom, Rene Auberjonois
© 1970 Turner Entertainment Co. Package Design © 2010 Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he’s designing – encouraged by a mysterious woman (Sally Kellerman) who may be his guardian angel. But Brewster McCloud, Robert Altman’s wild, anarchic cult fave, isn’t about dreams as much as it is about the highs and lows of humanity. It’s a serial-killer mystery. A frenetic car-chase flick. A crazy circus-finale comedy. Shelley Duvall debuts as the tour guide whose seduction of Brewster may lead to his undoing. Ah, love. The thing that at once shapes and unravels us. The thing that may or may not give us wings.
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from NYC on 9/25/2011Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
Unique concept, to-die-for cast, great music. Bud Cort totally inhabits title role. This film is weird, funny, off the wall and totally wonderful. For fans of the odd and supreme in cinema!!
from Brockton, MA on 8/14/2011Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
Altman's 1970 film is a strange amalgam of poetry, farce, and satire. It belongs to the group of Altman's films that includes the masterpiece, Three Women, and the surreal, Images.
I will never forget the moment when Sally Kellerman, who plays an ersatz fairy godmother, takes off her raincoat (under which she is naked) to reveal the scars of her surgically-removed wings. Shocking, to be sure. Later, she disappears into the light of a raised exit at the Astrodome; Altman's genius is evident in such touches.
Bud Cort must play the sweetest serial killer in the history of film; like Dexter, he only kills miscreants who deserve elimination. One will never forget his bird screams before his fatal crash at the Dome. This film introduces Shelley Duvall, who wrote her own lines, and her vulnerability is quite poignant.
In Altman's sensibility, the dream world runs parallel to the real world. There are no gauzy dissolves and overexposures. Unfortunately, the world is populated by zealous fame-seekers, chauvinists, Simon Legree misers, and egotist; the subtlety is left to the main character and his lovers.
We have come to love the farce and satire of the Robert Altman who made MASH. But Altman was a more experimental director than one assumes. We laugh loudly at scenes in Brewster McCloud, but we are also intrigued by the other-worldly quality of Altman's creation.
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Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
I loved this movie when it came out, and the remastered DVD is perfect. If you're an Altman fan or like M.A.S.H.-type movies, this one's for you. Due to heavy 'homage' to Steve Mcqueen's "Bullit" it helps to have seen that movie, but it's not required.
from Portland, OR on 2/16/2011Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
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Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
Unusual black comedy with the usual Robert Altman cast.
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Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
I'm a retired film historian/educator. I love Altman's collaborative techniques and his outright quirkiness....this is (for my money at least) his best and it is wonderful having access to it again! It came right after MASH and has many of the actors who would become his regulars. It is silly and poignant and fun!
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from Los Angeles, CA on 9/14/2010Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
I watched it right away when it came in, I was not dissapointed, transfer and colors and sound were all good. The movie was completely intact, as far as my memory served. (There were no "politically correct" edits, deleting anything)
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Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
This was Robert Altman's next movie after "MASH" -- its tag line was "What "MASH" did to the Army, 'Brewster McCloud" does to the cops.'" It's a great movie for DVD or video: there's a lot going on and it pretty much demands repeat viewings. It's been a favorite for years. Movie buffs will find it particularly entertaining, especially the allusions to "The Wizard of Oz" at the start and the running parody of Steve Mc Queen's "Bullit" in the middle of the film. Some parts of the film are pretty (and I suspect by design) gross, but they're typically satirical and undeniably funny. I've been looking forward to this release for years, and except for the Archive Series' casual attitude about indexing and chapter stops I was pleased with the release.
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Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
We were happy to have the movie after all these years. My husband has talked about it forever. Not quite what I expected, but an enjoyable movie.
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from Connecticut on 8/19/2010Comments about Brewster McCloud (DVD, Remastered):
It's great to finally have this Altman film on DVD in a decent widescreen transfer, but WHY isn't the film time encoded? Warner Archive used to do that for its releases, but this film shows no timing as it's playing, making it harder to resume later if you take it out of the player.
Are we back in 1997 in the early days of DVD? :(
