Pretty Bird (2008)
A Rocket Propelled Misadventure
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
- Date of release
- 2008-08-08
- TMDB
- 4.9 / 10 (23)
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Paul Schneider
Casting
- Billy Crudup — Curtis Prentiss
- Paul Giamatti — Rick Honeycutt
- Kristen Wiig — Mandy Riddle
- David Hornsby — Kenny Owenby
- Denis O'Hare — Chuck Sutters
- Elizabeth Marvel — Tonya Honeycutt
- Anna Camp — Becca French
- Aasif Mandvi — Ted the Banker
- Adam LeFevre — Phil the Neighbor
- Garret Dillahunt — Carson Thrash
- Daniel Stewart Sherman — Ted the Credit Card Clerk
- Daniel Talbott — Hustler (uncredited)
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