Brewster McCloud

Name: Brewster McCloud
Duration: 1 h 45 min

1hr 45m

1hr 45m
3.7/5 (6.5K)
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An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him… More Details »

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Robert Altman

Producer:

Lou Adler, Robert Eggenweiler, James Margellos

Writer:

Doran William Cannon

Runtime:

1hr 45m

Synopsis

An introverted loner living in the bowels of the Astrodome plots to develop - with the aid of a mysterious guardian angel - a pair of wings that will help him fly.

Cast

Bud Cort
Sally Kellerman
Michael Murphy
William Windom
Shelley Duvall
Rene Auberjonois
Stacy Keach
John Schuck
Margaret Hamilton
Jennifer Salt

Letterboxd User Reviews

3.7

RATINGS 167 FANS

3.7

May 19, 2018

I forgot the opening line!

497 Likes

David Sims

Jul 30, 2020

came for shelley duvall and her huge eyelashes, stayed for some of the most batshit crazy filmmaking i’ve ever seen. robert altman was one of a kind

347 Likes

Muriel

May 17, 2025

Screw Brewster, that car chase scene had ME flying

270 Likes

Iman Vellani
Feb 11, 2021

“Brewster McCloud” is one of the most hard career pivots from commercial to crazy in Hollywood history. Director Robert Altman, in the same year of release as the cultural phenomenon “Mash,” followed up that monster success with a movie about a serial killer that leaves…

245 Likes

theriverjordan

Sep 2, 2025

Brewster McCloud (Bud Cort) lives deep underneath the Houston Astrodome, but his dreams rise much higher. He aims to fly. Not in a plane, but with strapped-on wings he’s designing—encouraged by a mysterious woman (Sally Kellerman) who may be his guardian angel. But BREWSTER…

230 Likes

Criterion

Nov 8, 2015

Robert Altman's Where's Waldo

228 Likes

Joe
Apr 10, 2022

if you mess up your opening title sequence it’s ok you can just go back and do it again :)

162 Likes

Laura

Feb 27, 2020

omg i'm so obsessed with this!!! it was so gloriously chaotic and a majorly underrated altman!! i also learned yesterday that altman met shelley duvall at a party in texas and she was just there as the wife of an artist but her energy took over the whole room so altman…

140 Likes

siobhan

Oct 11, 2025

A true oddball movie, I don’t really know what to make out of it but I know I admire it. The kinda weird you can only get coming off of the 60s. A desire to make sense of things with nonsense, or perhaps vice versa. “Introducing Shelley Duvall” is a helluva claim to be…

138 Likes

Joel Haver