Brewster McCloud (1970)  /  Behind the Scenes of Brewster McCloud (excerpt) (1970)

"[A]bsorbingly diverting and an entertaining little bauble of the sort they just don't make any more." -- Indiewire

Directed by Robert Altman

Director Robert Altman’s most fanciful feature was often cited by him as a personal favorite.  Young Brewster (Bud Cort) lives secretly beneath the Houston Astrodome, developing a set of artificial wings and nursing an urge to fly, assisted by a seeming guardian angel (Sally Kellerman). Implicated in the murders of corrupt local officials, Brewster must finally resort to a “flight” from justice, in a seeming allegory of freedom’s limits.  

Adler-Philps, LionsGate Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. Producer: Lou Adler. Screenwriter: Doran William Cannon. Cinematographer: Lamar Boren, Jordan Cronenweth. Editor: Louis Lombardo. Cast: Bud Cort, Shelley Duvall, Sally Kellerman, René Auberjonois.

35mm, color, 104 min.