Paulie
(DVD) 

Double-sided disc includes standard version (side one) and widescreen film (side two).

Originally produced as an American motion picture in 1998.

Special features: Trailer (2 min.); Cast and crew [text feature]; Production notes [text feature].

Director of photography, Tony Pierce-Roberts ; production designer, Dennis Washington ; film editor, Bruce Cannon ; costume designer, Mary Zophres ; music, John Debney.

Gena Rowlands (Ivy), Tony Shalhoub (Misha), Cheech Marin (Ignacio), Bruce Davison (Dr. Reingold), Trini Alvarado (Adult Marie), Jay Mohr (voice of Paulie/Buddy), Buddy Hackett (Artie), Hallie Kate Eisenberg (Young Marie), Matt Craven (Warren), Bill Cobbs (Virgil), Tia Texada (Ruby), Laura Harrington (Lila).

Paulie is a road movie about a bird. A green-and-blue conure parrot, Paulie is found by lonely émigré janitor Misha--padlocked in an old cage in the littered basement of a research institute, where he tells Misha his life story. It began with 5-year-old Marie, the love of his life, and his heartbreaking separation from her. In search of Marie, Paulie has traveled from New Jersey to Los Angeles. Along the way he's spent time in a pawn shop; driven in a Winnebago with Ivy; been in a parrot mariachi band at an East L.A. taco stand; and unwittingly turned to crime with small-time thief Benny, winding up a prisoner in the basement. Paulie's story strikes a chord with Misha, who vows to help him find Marie.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby digital surround, 2.0 Dolby surround; anamorphic widescreen presentation preserving the theatrical exhibition aspect ratio 1.85:1; full screen presentation formatted to fit your screen aspect ratio 1.33:1.

In English, dubbed Spanish or French, with optional subtitles in English or Spanish.

Winner, 1999 BAFTA Children's Award, Best Children's Feature Film--Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Allison Lyon Segan, John Roberts.

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