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Paulie
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Runtime
91 min
Status
Released
Language
EN
Popularity
14.24
Director
John Roberts
Writers
Laurie Craig

Paulie

1998 Rated PG · ⭐ 6.7 · Votes: 389
“The Bird is the Word”
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. Paulie's 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 aging widow a Mexican-American troubadour and a would be thief before being taken to the institute where he now lives

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