Rare Birds (2001)
Fortune can make a man do some pretty fowl things.
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing the presence of a rare duck.
- Date of release
- 2001-09-09
- TMDB
- 5.3 / 10 (30)
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
- Director
- Sturla Gunnarsson
Casting
- William Hurt — Dave
- Andy Jones — Phonse
- Molly Parker — Alice
- Vicky Hynes — Deb
- Greg Malone — Buster Bartlett
- Michael Chiasson — Dr. Jack Tomlinson
- Leah Lewis — Bette
- Sheila McCarthy — Claire
- Mark Critch — Dougie
- Pete Soucy — Bystander
- Bryan Hennessey — Cortini
- Lawrence Barry — Hooligan
Interesting facts
Rare Birds is a 2001 Canadian comedy-drama film, directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and written by Edward Riche based on his novel.
Production
The film was shot in Cape Spear, Newfoundland and Labrador. It was noted as an unusual Western Canadian/Atlantic Canadian coproduction; the producers were the St. John's-based Paul Pope and the Vancouver-based Janet York, and Gunnarsson is a Vancouver-based director.
The soundtrack features music by The Pogues, Ashley MacIsaac, Émile Benoît and Della Reese, alongside an orchestral score by Jonathan Goldsmith.
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