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Bird on a Wire

Universal Pictures

Interscope Communications

The Badham-Cohen Group

United States of America

English

Mel Gibson

Goldie Hawn

David Carradine

Bill Duke

Stephen Tobolowsky

Joan Severance

Harry Caesar

Jeff Corey

Alex Bruhanski

John Pyper-Ferguson

Clyde Kusatsu

Jackson Davies

Florence Paterson

Tim Healy

Wes Tritter

Lossen Chambers

Ken Camroux-Taylor

Wendy Van Riesen

Lesley Ewen

Robert Metcalfe

Kevin McNulty

Robert Thurston

Brian Torpe

Oscar Goncalves

Tim Price

Oscar Ramos

Dan Zale

Blu Mankuma

Christopher Judge

Jon Garber

Paul Jarrett

James Kidnie

Kim Kondrashoff

Michel Barbe

Maria Leone

Danny Wattley

John Banovich

Mic Rodgers

Robert W. Cort

Rob Cohen

Frank Morriss

Ted Field

Eduardo Castro

John Badham

Robert Primes

Dallas Puett

Philip Harrison

David Seltzer

Rick Patton

Hans Zimmer

Betty Thomas Quee

Scott Burrow

Bill Wyley

Tim Hogan

William L. Manger

Richard Patton

Bill Voigtlander

Sandy Cochrane

Joanne Quirk

James Clare

Dave Bowe

Emma E. Hickox

Nigel Hollick

Larry Mann

Robyn A. Manger

Richard Coleman

Daniel R. Bradette

Paul Guenette

Gordon Davidson

Allen L. Stone

H. Chuck Robinson

Richard Oswald

Jeff Jones

Kelly L. Manger

Robert L. Hoyt

Richard Buckmaster

Douglas Craik

Monique Prudhomme

Stewart Bethune

Nikita Knatz

Donah Bassett

Albert Romero

John L. Brown

Beverly Wiens

Barbara Harris

John G. Oliver

Steve Bartek

E. Thomas Case

Colin Gray

Lorraine Baird

Jeanie Lamb

Thom Wells

Mark Davidson

Joey Steele

Shirley Walker

Paul R. Prince

Milton C. Burrow

James Bolt

Stephen Jackson

Chris Rudolph

Kenna Marshall-Pittman

Stephen Dewey

Michael J. Siver

Elizabeth Aird

Gretchen Goode

Neil Burrow

Carol McDonald

Sherry Linder-Gygli

Sandra Couldwell

Rick Alexander

R.D. 'Luther' Fairbairn

Lyndell Quiyou

Oliver Berg

Glen Moseley

Chris Hayward

Joseph Lederer

Jim Rankin

Louis Venosta

Eric Lerner

Melissa R. Stubbs

Jim Dunn

Cheryl Wheeler Duncan

Ernie Jackson

Kurt Bryant

Ronald Robinson

Tony Morelli

Tom Glass

Dawn Stofer-Rupp

Ken Kirzinger

Jacob Rupp

Serviceable and entertaining, but throwaway action-romance-comedy with both Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn showing their individual charms. However, the plot is thin and the action kind of average. There's not a whole lot here memorable for either of the stars. Guess it's fine for a lazy Saturday. **3.0/5**

I am currently attempting to con my wife into watching this, not because it's a great movie, but because I know it's the kind of movie that she is going to laugh at and enjoy. It has that humor that people that are ESL can really pick up on without having to be an expert native speaker to follow the word play...

... but then again, she's actually gotten good enough with English that she's watching and enjoying Monty Python so, who knows if that still applies.

As I said, it's not a great film, but it is memorable, and memorable for it's dumb humor and brainless action alone that is personified by Gibson when he was at the top of his game for fun, dumb, and entertaining action/comedy flicks.

Historically we can call it a cult of personality, because, honestly, you are watching it strictly because of Gibson's personality and his sense of humor.

And mind you, this was before he did that thing... which he asked forgiveness for very publicly... and I personally don't see why people feel it's necessary to continue to beat a man after he made amends for a mistake.

Honestly, you're watching it and remembering it because it is a funny Gibson action comedy, and nothing more. Especially since he kind of outshines Hawn in the comedy department in this one, which is kind of shocking given that she can be pretty hysterical when she wants to. In this, however, I'm not sure she was really giving it her A game, or maybe she just sulked back to a co-star routine.

But, it doesn't claim to be anything more, it achieves it's goals, and it entertains.

"Bird on a Wire" is an incredibly engaging, entertaining, and well made action comedy which is very reminscient of "Midnight Run" (1988) on more than one occasion. After all, the general frame work - two people being pursued across the country - is principally the same, except this film successfully manages to be able to stand alone. It moves at a wonderfully cracking pace and it is full of funny and thrilling action sequences - the scenes which take place at the zoo during the final climatic reel of the film are particularly exciting and enjoyable - that have been put on the screen in the most manic way imaginable by director John Badham.

Bird on a Wire (1990) Original Trailer [FHD]

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