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- 1970
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1970
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Summary An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Doran William Cannon
- 1970
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
- 1970
- R
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
- 1 h 45 m
Brewster McCloud
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Summary An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.
Directed By: Robert Altman
Written By: Doran William Cannon
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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75% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
72
75% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
25% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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One of Robert Altman's most charming exercises in cabaret humor and off-the-cuff modernism.
We get the sense of a live intelligence, rushing things ahead on the screen, not worrying whether we'll understand.
As Altman misfires go, Brewster McCloud is one of the better ones. [25 Jul 2010, p.12]
What 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.
Altman's unexpected follow-up to MASH is pitched fairly successfully between escapist fantasy and satirical comment on the same.
The whole thing is amorphous and rather silly, but it's clearly a trial run for some of the effects that Altman brings off in Nashville.
Attempts to be a kind of all American, slapstick Orpheus Ascending, a timeless myth about innocence and corruption told in the sort of outrageous and vulgar terms that Brian De Palma and Robert Downey do much better.
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Awards
Texas Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Laurel Awards
• 1 Nomination
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Nomination
