Paulie

Apr 17, 1998

1h 31m

★ 6.9

The bird is the word

Overview

Paulie, a talking parrot, recounts his travels looking for his original owner to a Russian janitor who helps him to the end of his journey.

Genres

Drama

Comedy

Family

Adventure

Production Companies

DreamWorks Pictures

Mutual Film Company

Paulie Trailers

Cast

Ivy

Gena Rowlands

Misha Vilyenkov

Tony Shalhoub

Ignacio

Cheech Marin

Dr. Reingold

Bruce Davison

Adult Marie Alweather

Trini Alvarado

Benny / Paulie (voice)

Jay Mohr

Artie

Buddy Hackett

Marie Alweather

Hallie Eisenberg

Warren Alweather

Matt Craven

Virgil the Janitor

Bill Cobbs

Ruby / Lupe (voice)

Tia Texada

Lila Alweather

Laura Harrington

Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that took place in the house. They say his ghost still roams the house. Night comes and every noise and creak in the house scares the papa, mama and son (the daughter is out on a date). The Mover gives the daughter a parrot saying "It's a religious parrot – I bought it from a sailor". At any rate, the parrot gets into the act by yelling scaring Papa and Son who have come down looking for the source of the noise. Later Daughter and Remover return from a costume party and sneak into the house. The young man is dressed in a skeleton outfit and the fun continues. There has been film reconstruction in a number of places, particularly the last third of the film. In many cases there is a photograph depicting the scene being described.

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