Every year we get a few movies (sometimes, more than a few), that fail to live up to expectations, despite wonderful origins. The cast and director are well known and respected by the public, but the material just fails to…
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Paramount | 2008 | 98 mins. | Rated R Though Paramount agreed to distribute the 2008 comedic drama Pretty Bird, the studio clearly didn’t have much faith in the film as they screened it at Sundance and then shelved it…