Brewster McCloud
Brewster McCloud is a 1970 movie, directed by Robert Altman, about a young recluse Bud Cort, as the title character who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings so he can fly. He is helped by his comely and enigmatic fairy godmother, played by Sally Kellerman. The film was shot on location in Houston, Texas. During the opening credits, shots of the downtown Houston skyline with One Shell Plaza under construction zoom toward the Houston Astrodome and Astrohall, with the emerging Texas Medical Center in the background. It was the first film shot inside the Astrodome.
While Brewster works to complete his wings and condition himself for flight, Houston suffers a string of unexplained murders, the work of a serial killer whose victims are found strangled and covered in bird droppings. Haskell Weeks William Windom a prominent figure in Houston, pulls strings to have the Houston Police call San Francisco super cop Frank Shaft Michael Murphy to investigate. Shaft immediately fixates on the bird droppings and soon finds a link to Brewster. Brewster eludes the police with the apparent help of Louise but he eventually drives her awayand dooms himselfwhen he ignores her advice about sex by hooking up with Astrodome usher Suzanne Shelley Duvall. Suzanne saves Brewster by outdriving Shaft in her Plymouth Road Runner. Severely injured after losing Brewster, Shaft kills himself. Despite her sweetness, Suzanne will not give up her comfortable home to fly with Brewster. Sensing something very wrong with Brewster, Suzanne betrays him to the police.In the climactic scene, a small army of policemen enter the Astrodome but fail to nab Brewster before he takes flight using his completed wings. Although Brewster escapes the police, he cannot escape the human beings inherent unsuitability for flight. Exhausted by the effort, he falls out of the air, crashing in a heap on the floor of the Astrodome. The film ends with a Circus entering the Astrodome, played by the cast of the film, costumed as clowns, strongmen and other circus performers. The Ringmaster played by William Windom announces the names of each cast member, finishing with Brewster, who remains crumpled on the floor. ........
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