Fresh
A sardonic fairy tale for the times, extremely well cast and directed.
Variety Staff, Variety
Brewster McCloud
THIS MAY BE OVER YOUR HEAD.
1970 · 1h 45m · R
Comedy, Fantasy
Directed by
Robert Altman
Overview
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
Director and cast
- Robert Altman Director
- Bud Cort as Brewster McCloud
- Sally Kellerman as Louise
- Michael Murphy as Det. Lt. Frank Shaft
- William Windom as Weeks
- Shelley Duvall as Suzanne Davis
- René Auberjonois as The Lecturer
- Stacy Keach as Abraham Wright
- John Schuck as Officer Johnson
- Margaret Hamilton as Daphne Heap
- Jennifer Salt as Hope
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Rotten
It's imitation hip.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Fresh
We get the sense of a live intelligence, rushing things ahead on the screen, not worrying whether we'll understand.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
One of Robert Altman's most charming exercises in cabaret humor and off-the-cuff modernism.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Altman's unexpected follow-up to MASH is pitched fairly successfully between escapist fantasy and satirical comment on the same.
Time Out
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