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Director: Sturla Gunnarson
Starring: William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker
Icelandic-born director Sturla Gunnarson made this charmingly offbeat Canadian small scale feature. The Newfoundland setting is fresh and the characters are likable and interesting, with good performances all around. There is an interesting little story and a few funny lines, making this an appealing distraction for a couple of hours.
William Hurt is Dave, the owner of a dying restaurant in small town Newfoundland with an absent wife and a quirky friend named Phonce, who has built himself a submarine as a recreational vehicle and has a plan (plus a plan B – “always have a have plan B, Dave.”) to help the restaurant, involving a couple sightings of a duck believed to be extinct which brings bird watchers flocking to the little town. It would be simple if that was all there was to worry about here…
Rare Birds is a pleasant and entertaining little film that may be worth watching if you bump it into it on TV.
