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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 1998 - 19.26 July

Sections & Films

PAULIE

Category: Edition 1998

Synopsis
Paulie, an intelligent parrot who actually talks, relates the story of his struggle to a Russian immigrant who works as a janitor at the research institute where he is housed and neglected. Paulies story begins many years earlier when he is given as a gift to a little girl who stutters. Eventually, he teaches the girl to speak correctly but is taken away by her father because he believes the girl cannot distinguish fantasy from reality because she believes the bird can talk. Paulie goes through a series of adventures with a pawn shop owner, an ageing widow, a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives.

Original Title Paulie
Italian Title Paulie - Il pappagallo che parlava troppo
Category Official Competition
Section Childhood screens
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 91'
Production Year 1998
Nationality USA
Directed by John Roberts
Screenplay Laurie Craig
Music John Debney
Main cast Gena Rowlands, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin

face manJOHN ROBERTS