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Brewster McCloud (1970)

Director: Robert Altman

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Though it bears more than a few traces of the forced outrageousness that marked Doran William Cannon's previous screenplay, for Preminger's lamentable comedy Skidoo, Altman's unexpected follow-up to MASH is pitched fairly successfully between escapist fantasy and satirical comment on the same. Cort is the Icarus figure attempting to become airborne in the Houston Astrodome, Kellerman the sort of guardian angel who appears to have wandered in from a Dennis Potter play, and Murphy the cop mulling connections between bird shit and murder.

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Director: Robert Altman

Producer: Lou Adler

Cast: Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, Shelley Duvall, William Windom, Rene Auberjonois, Stacy Keach, John Schuck full cast

Duration: 105 mins

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