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Brewster McCloud

1970

Robert Altman

Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall ...

6.3

556

Comedy. Fantasy 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? [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It's that quality that's so attractive (...) We get the sense of a live intelligence, rushing things ahead on the screen, not worrying whether we'll understand (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Nathan Rabin AV Club	"It’s an intermittently lyrical, strangely poignant fantasy powered by the beatific, magnetic presence of Cort and Shelley Duvall (...) 'Brewster McCloud' is a thematic and narrative mess"
		Time Out	"[A] wonderful part about examining this period is discovering that Altman's 'minor' films were weird, little masterpieces too (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Fernando F. Croce Slant	"What saves the film from curdled, wise-ass whimsy is the control Altman brings to the freewheeling material (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"One of Robert Altman's most charming exercises in cabaret humor and off-the-cuff modernism"

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