PARK CITY -- "Pretty Bird" flaps one comic wing and one dramatic wing, but this slight-framed bird never soars and ultimately crashes under the weight of its excessive thematic ballast. By Duane Byrge ...
Though a great film essentially requires fantastic performances from its actors, those performances and their respective actors alone cannot make the film great. Herein lies the problem with Pretty ...
At Sundance a few years ago I caught a film called Pretty Bird, directed by actor Paul Schneider, that was about a group of misfit scientists and businessmen who decide to build a working ...
Dir: Paul Schneider, US, 2008, 97mins. The perennial story of Americans trying to get rich quick on a new invention meets the perennial story of Americans betraying each other over property in Pretty ...
The darker side of the American spirit of invention weighs on actor-turned-helmer Paul Schneider's "Pretty Bird," an overly calculated cautionary tale. A witless entrepreneur played by Billy Crudup in ...