Pretty Bird

Pretty Bird is a 2008 American comedy film. It competed in the Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.[1]

Pretty Bird
Directed byPaul Schneider
Written byPaul Schneider
Starring
Music byWim Mertens
Release date
  • January 20, 2008 (2008-01-20)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryUnited States
Budget$3.75 million

Plot

A sweet-natured guy enlists his best friend, and an engineer who lost his job and has an attitude problem, to help him create and market his idea for a rocket-powered belt. The entrepreneur never loses his confidence the idea will work even though he runs into problems that include finding investors and disagreements with his engineer.

Cast

Reception

Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 20% based on reviews from 5 critics.[2]

Robert Koehler of Variety criticized the film as being "overly calculated" and predictable, noting that the only bright spot in the film was its soundtrack.[3] Scott Weinberg of Cinematical writes that the movie's ending is anything but "pat, obvious, or predictable," and goes on to say that it is worth seeing on the strength of the actors' performances alone.[4]

It was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance,[5] but did not win.

gollark: If you act based on them, which you should if it's an actual belief, your actions will be wrong, in the sense of worse at achieving goals.
gollark: Also, wrong beliefs are bad.
gollark: i.e. you go 1 weirdness unit of weird, but that makes you okay with more weird next time you're self-mind-controlling yourself and you gain more weird, repeatedly.
gollark: Well, a possible problem with self-mind-control is value drift.
gollark: Like how I fear C, and all heavy machinery ever.

References
  1. "2008 Sundance Film Festival Announces Films in Competition" (PDF). 2007-11-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-06-25. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
  2. "Pretty Bird (2008)" – via www.rottentomatoes.com.
  3. Koehler, Robert (2008-01-29). "Pretty Bird Movie Review". Variety.
  4. "Yahoo". www.cinematical.com.
  5. "Pretty Bird - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
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