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?... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertWe get the sense of a live intelligence, rushing things ahead on the screen, not worrying whether we'll understand. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrOne of Robert Altman's most charming exercises in cabaret humor and off-the-cuff modernism. |
| USA TodayMike ClarkBrewster McCloud spares practically nothing in contemporary society. Literate original screenplay is a sardonic fairy tale for the times, extremely well cast and directed. |
| Chicago TribuneNina MetzNothing Altman made before or after Brewster McCloud is quite so heightened with enjoyably sophomoric and bizarre humor. |
| Slant MagazineFernando F. CroceWhat saves the film from curdled, wise-ass whimsy is the control Altman brings to the freewheeling material, to say nothing of the undercurrent of despair that keeps its absurdism bold and beguiling. |
| Film FrenzyMatt BrunsonThe off-kilter humor on display during the first half is terrific, but the film can't maintain its momentum and meanders during the second hour. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyAltman's unexpected follow-up to MASH is pitched fairly successfully between escapist fantasy and satirical comment on the same. |
| Movie ViewsRyan CracknellThere is something delightful in the absurdity and chaos of the movie that kept my interest even as I struggled to pinpoint exactly what it was that I was watching. |
| The A.V. ClubNathan RabinIn the earthly realm, it’s a sledgehammer-subtle social satire filled with cartoonish Keystone Kops haplessly pursuing their elusive prey, and crudely drawn authority figures behaving like petulant children. On a more ethereal level, it’s an intermittently lyrical, strangely poignant fantasy powered by the beatific, magnetic presence of Cort and Shelley Duvall in an electric debut, and “Papa” John Phillips’ lovely songs. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsShane BurridgeAltman's running joke through this movie is that it is a birdwatching film |
