Brewster McCloud Movie Review 1970

Altman's first picture after M*A*S*H reunites much of the cast and combines fantasy, black comedy, and satire in the story of a young man whose head is in the clouds or at least in the upper reaches of the Houston Astrodome. Brewster (Cort) lives covertly in the Dome and dreams of flying. He also has a guardian angel (Kellerman) who watches over him and may actually be killing people who give him a hard time. Murphy is a cop obsessed with catching the killer. And there's a circus allegory as well. Hard to figure what it all means and offbeat as they come, but for certain tastes, exquisite.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 101 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Black Comedy, Birds, Carnivals & Circuses, Airborne, Checkered Flag, Heaven Sent, Houston

Screenplay

Doran William Cannon

Cast

Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy, William Windom, Rene Auberjonois, Stacy Keach, John Schuck, Margaret Hamilton

Cinematography

Lamar Boren, Jordan Cronenweth

Director

Robert Altman

Music

Gene Page

Producer

MGM