Can anyone help me remember another film, set in the rural mid-west, about a boy who becomes increasingly strange and obsessed with becoming a bird. He actually begins to sprout wings, and finally takes off inside a circus tent (I think) with disastrous results? I have obviously been mixing it up with "Birdy", as I think it may have also been made in the 80's.
shareThe Boy Who Could Fly maybe ? IMO this was a pretty bad and naive movie... Birdy is 1 000 000 times better !
It's not set in the rural mid-west, but you might be thinking about the Robert Altman film, Brewster McCloud.
Brewster McCloud is a recluse hiding in a storage room underneath the Houston Astrodome who is building a set of mechanical wings so he can fly. He finally does so, but realizes the freedom he seeks is unobtainable. The credits sequence at the end shows all the film's characters as if they are circus performers.
yes - Altman's Brewster McCloud (1971) - thanks! (My original description obviously very blurred by the passage of time - but credit to Altman's work that I remembered it at all, and credit to Yheoadl for knowing whatI meant!)
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