An unemployed college professor must deal with a psychotic woman on the run after taking her as his date to an important job interview.An unemployed college professor must deal with a psychotic woman on the run after taking her as his date to an important job interview.An unemployed college professor must deal with a psychotic woman on the run after taking her as his date to an important job interview.
Lashelle Crumpler
- Carla James
- (as Shai Wilson)
Dik Martin
- Clint Sullivan
- (as Dick Martin)
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- TriviaThe DVD was pulled shortly after release to omit the bonus short "The Signature Collection" due to a copyright infringement. Copies with the short are extremely rare and only a few made it through sales.
- GoofsDuring the argument between Barbra and Martha, one shot of Martha yelling uses audio which does not match her lip movements.
- ConnectionsReferences Bullitt (1968)
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"Straight up is fine."
Throughout his impressive filmography, Michael Fredianelli has always been willing to mix-and-match genres within individual features, but I cannot recall "romantic comedy" ever really being at the forefront like it was in A Bird in the Bush. The story, about the awkward relationship of a neurotic loser (and titular "bird," destined for capture or companionship, or perhaps both) and an unbalanced blond (Jana Ireton, in a strong performance) whose serendipitous pairing leads them from an innocuous husband-and-wife ruse (gone wrong in the most amusing of ways) all the way to being on the run from low-rent mafia killers with a crime witness in tow, is somewhat reminiscent of True Romance, only with a deeper level of characterization in the leads and more slapstick, un-pc humor, and oddball antics. Even the mob boss, Daddy Don Guido (delightfully caricatured by Ronald Kaplan), seems to be channeling a less homosexual version of Saul Rubinek's angry persona from that Tony Scott flick. Aaron Stielstra's brief role as the Flatulent Hobo (a powerful part he seemed born to play) would leave anyone in stitches, including his dummy double, who suffers reckless abuse in several hilariously unexpected scenes (one of which being an expectedly rousing car chase). It was also nice to see Michael Nosé (among other Wild Dogs regulars) back in action, especially in one inspired bit where he was trying to pass himself off as a Vietnamese orphan.
A Bird in the Bush is not the kind of film I typically seek out but it goes in so many quirky directions -be it the dramatic exchange between Babs, her hateful mother and enabling father or glass-pane carriers avoiding disaster during the aforementioned chase sequence only to unluckily slip on a shiny penny- that it's hard not to be thoroughly entertained by it.
The DVD includes a few good trailers and some funny outtakes, plus a bonus short in the form of a revealing "hobo" documentary. Let's just say that there are some strange human breeds out West there. Sadly, the short is all too short; I can definitely see a full-length Fredianelli doc on this profound subject matter striking it big with fans and hoopties alike.
A Bird in the Bush is not the kind of film I typically seek out but it goes in so many quirky directions -be it the dramatic exchange between Babs, her hateful mother and enabling father or glass-pane carriers avoiding disaster during the aforementioned chase sequence only to unluckily slip on a shiny penny- that it's hard not to be thoroughly entertained by it.
The DVD includes a few good trailers and some funny outtakes, plus a bonus short in the form of a revealing "hobo" documentary. Let's just say that there are some strange human breeds out West there. Sadly, the short is all too short; I can definitely see a full-length Fredianelli doc on this profound subject matter striking it big with fans and hoopties alike.
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- KingM21
- Oct 17, 2008
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