It's always the ones about the two mismatched, oddball misfits who finally manage enough social interaction to fall in love.......(for a prime example, check out our post about "The Giant Mechanical Man" on 6/24/20)
We've no rational explanation or excuse for this. Give us a damaged, quirky guy 'n gal, throw this unlikely pair together........ and you have us at hello. (Probably because we grew up as a quirky, damaged oddball outcast who also found a lifelong soullmate. Ah..that must be it.....)._
So here we go........presenting Lyman (Jackson Hurst) a hunky, anti-social victim of a tragic, orphaned childhood. An all-night toiler, he spends his evenings in an orange jumpsuit driving a county tow truck, rescuing stranded drivers and picking up debris and dead animals off the road........
He'll only speak when spoken to directly and even then, not much.......until out of the blue, a talkative 90 year old tropical parrot flies into his trailer home......
Leaping at the chance to help him track down the parrot's owner is Fiona (Rachel Nichols), a manic pixie librarian with severe mood swings who's got a serious thing for Lyman......
You can almost predict the rest........will the bubbly, outgoing Fiona break through the barely verbal Lyman's defenses and win his heavily guarded heart? Will these two least likely lovebirds get through to each other as they hunt down a succession of previous owners of the ancient but still lively parrot?
If you're as much of a sucker for these kind of movies as we are, you'll find plenty to enjoy here, especially in the array of equally quirky characters our dysfunctional duo encounter on their parrot adopter search....(including Buck Henry, Judith Ivey and surprise, surprise....1960's ingenue Anjanette Comer)
As we've already pointed out, Jackson Hurst and Rachel Nichols had us at hello so we needn't say any more. A sweet little movie. 3 stars (***) Check it out.
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