Rendered bland and frustrating by its endless attempts to make the odd odder.
Rare Birds
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Canada · 2001
Rated R · 1h 39m
Director Sturla Gunnarsson
Starring William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker, Vicky Hynes
Genre Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Dave owns a small restaurant in a remote Newfoundland town. With his business going under and his marriage on the rocks, things aren’t looking bright for him. That is until his neighbor hatches a plan to fake a rare bird sighting in order to attract new tourists. But keeping up the ruse proves to be harder than they imagined.
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Has more than enough charm to make it memorable. Hurt shows a gentleness and subtlety that's interesting to watch in this phase of his career.
Hurt is quietly affecting as Dave Purcell, a fine chef but a lousy businessman whose sticksville cafe, the Auk, is named after a rare, possibly extinct kind of duck.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
A sweetheart of a film, whimsical and touching. It positions itself somewhere between a slice of life and a screwball comedy.
For the record, Rare Birds doesn't even fly as a birder's special, since Tasseter's Sulfurious Duck is a fictional species. Now, if they'd seen a Eurasian Wigeon, then we'd be talking.
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