Paulie

Paulie is a 1998 GermanAmerican adventure fantasy comedy film about a disobedient bird named Paulie, starring Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Hallie Eisenberg, and Jay Mohr. Mohr performs the voice of Paulie and also plays a minor onscreen character.

Misha Belenkoff Tony Shalhoub, a Russian immigrant and former teacher of literature, lives in America and works as a janitor at an animal testing lab. At the lab, Belenkoff encounters Paulie and is shocked to see Paulie speaking fluent English. Subsequently, Paulie does not speak a word when Belenkoff brings others to witness the talking bird.Belenkoff woos Paulie to tell his story by offering him pieces of mango. Paulie tells Belenkoff about his master, a little girl named Marie Hallie Eisenberg who was a stutterer. The story transitions to a flashback scene in which Paulie is a baby bird. As Marie learns to speak, so does Paulie, beginning with understanding the meaning of words and progressing to the construction of complex sentences. Maries father Warren, played by Matt Craven, a soldier, returns home from Vietnam and decides that Paulie is not helping Marie. The fathers resentment of the close bond between Paulie and Marie, and their shared progress in speech development is evident. ........

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