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Brewster McCloud
Directed by Robert Altman
Produced by Lou Adler
Written by Doran William Cannon
Starring Bud Cort
Sally Kellerman
Michael Murphy
William Windom
Shelley Duvall
Release date(s) December 5, 1970
Running time 105 minutes
Language English
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 movie directed by Robert Altman; it centers on a young recluse who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome building a pair of wings so he'll be able to fly.
This was an early film to be shot on location in Houston, Texas. During the opening credits, shots of the downtown Houston skyline (with the One Shell Plaza building under construction) zoom toward the Houston Astrodome and Astrohall, with the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background.
It was the first film to be filmed inside the Houston Astrodome.
The picture quality is so-so. On the brighter side, it's 'Brewster McCloud', in wide-screen format.
It was Altman's follow-up production after the surprise hit, multiple Oscar-winner 'M*A*S*H.' Fox gave Altman complete creative control in the making of this film. One can't call it a 'good' movie in the conventional sense of the word, but it has gained a cult following. Altman himself, speaking of this film's disappointing box-office returns and cult status, said 'A cult is what you get when you don't have enough people for a minority.'
Altman's elliptical, surreal style in this film precludes a statement of a conventional linear plot, but here's an attempt. Sally Kellerman's character Louise is Brewster's mother, an angel who fell through sexual intercourse with a human being. She keeps him sheltered in the Astrodome [a reference to the heavens], sheilding him from worldly influences and engineering the deaths of anyone who threatens him from acheiving the goal of acheiving the power of flight which she has lost.
There are many amusing touches and in-jokes: references to Altman's previous film and televsion work; detective Frank Shaft is an homage to Steve McQueen's portrayal of 'Bullitt', but also references other popular detectives in films of the time, the rogue individualist who operates outside the rules and defies authority, and many references to the corrupt nature of authority.
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