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Brewster McCloud

Jul 8—Jul 10, 2024
    Part of
  • Two Women: Early Films of Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duval
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  • BAM Film 2024
Directed by Robert Altman (1970)
With Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, William Windom

Brewster McCloud lives deep within the cavernous underground of the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane. But with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a mysterious woman who may be his guardian angel. In Robert Altman’s outrageous, absurd, and wildly funny 1970 black comedy, Shelley Duvall plays an Astrodome tour guide and fleeting love interest of the titular recluse, Brewster, who soon becomes embroiled in a series of unexplained killings in the Houston area.

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      RUNNING TIME

      105min

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      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      35mm

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