Paulie
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Paulie is a movie about the adventures of a smart-talking bird. A worker discovers him in the basement and hears him talk. He brings the other workers to see but Paulie refuses to talk. Then the worker bribes him with mango and he finally talks. He tells his story about how he had been a little girl's parrot, until one day the girl's parents decide he should go. Paulie and Marie go to the bathroom window to try to teach Paulie how to fly, but Marie follows out the window from the roof. The next day Paulie is taken away and put in a shop. An old lady buys him and takes him travelling to try and find Marie but when they get to her home Marie and her family have moved. The old lady becomes blind and finally dies, that is when Paulie decides he will learn to fly. He takes off and sees the sunset, then joins a bunch of mimicking parrots. Some people kidnap him from them to try and get him to steal jewelry. Then he gets taken to a research institute where he was disobedient so he got put in the dungeon. Paulie and the worker find Marie but she is all grown up now. A heatwarming tale. It stars Tony Shalhoub, Gena Rowlands, Jay Mohr and Hallie Kate Eisenberg, with appearances by Buddy Hackett and Cheech Marin.
[edit] External links
- Paulie at the Internet Movie Database
