Cinema: Bird Droppings

JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL

Directed by HALL BARTLETT

Screenplay by RICHARD BACH

and HALL BARTLETT

If one must spend the better part of two hours following the adventures of a bird, far better that the hero be Daffy Duck than Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

Jonathan, for the information of any recluses who might not have heard or misanthropes who just don't care, is an adventurous seagull who wants to "fly where no seagull has flown before," to "know what there is to know of this life." This angers his flock. An outraged Elder announces, "You are henceforth and forever outcast!", and Jonathan takes it on...

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