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The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2003)
WONDERFUL FLICK! I laughed, I smiled, I teared up a bit.
If you like San Francisco, love animals, particularly Psittaciform birds, i.e. parrots, conures, budgies, macaws, cockatoos, galahs, etc., this is a MUST SEE MOVIE! If you ever loved your pets or companion animals, this movie will touch you.
The storyline is bittersweet. Mark Bittner is a latter day Saint Francis, the patron saint of this picturesque town, living off the largesse of others as Francis of Assisi did. Some scenery is gorgeous with stunning vistas of San Francisco Bay and Alcatraz and dazzling closeups of birds and flowers. Other scenes show the mundane and quaint close up views that residents encounter every day. This gentle story unfolds gradually, as if you're there in person and not seeing it through a camera lens.
WARNING! No graphic sex, gratuitous violence, or car chases take place. This movie is less scary than Bambi is for the bambini! (Bambi frightened me at age 4!)
Seek "Wild Parrots" out, since it's in very limited release. Or ask your local art house to get it! I'd see it again and buy it if it ever comes out on DVD. It was truly worth it!
North Shore (2004)
AUWE!
Bad writing, wooden acting, all pretty people because that's ALL who gets to be on US TV anymore!
BUT, I'm hooked on the scenery of my second home. Like to guess where the scenes are shot, Haleiwa, Windward, Makapuu (amazing how fast they can get from place to place!), in addition to the Turtle Bay Hilton, formerly the Kuilima, standing in for the Grand Waimea. Used to play "Guess that background scenery" with Hawaii 5-0 and sometimes Magnum, but I lived there when Magnum PI was active, and filming in Kahala could be mucho disruptive!
Did Andy Bumatai play the tabloid photographer tackled in the first episode?
There isn't a series shot in Hawaii that Andy doesn't appear in! Used to like his stand up, back when Rap was Poi Dog. Sorry, too dated and inside. Aloha kakou!