Paulie
- Original title
- Paulie
- Year
- 1998
- Running time
- 92 min.
- Country
United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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- Gena Rowlands
- Tony Shalhoub
- Cheech Marin
- Bruce Davison
- Jay Mohr
- Buddy Hackett
- Hallie Kate Eisenberg
- Trini Alvarado
- Laura Harrington
- Matt Craven
- Tia Texada
- Tamara Zook
- Bill Cobbs
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Kids. Comedy. Drama | Family-friendly. Animals. Birds. Road Movie
- 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.
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- Critics' reviews
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"'Paulie' has moments of minor charm but lacks the magic to fully capture the imaginations of either children or adults."
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"Shalhoub gives an impressively nuanced performance in the dangerously cliched role, and Paulie comes across as a fully developed character"
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"A perfect family movie with the intelligence, humor and hug-me moments to be a great first-date movie, too"
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"Unusual and surprisingly agreeable."
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