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Title: Quiet start, powerful finish in this heart-tugging doc...
Review: If you have an interest in San Francisco, or in birding, or in how an aging hippie survives in one of the world's most expensive places to live without a real job, this flick's for you. Have patience, and about one-third of the way through its 83 minutes, this will grab you and not let you want to let it end. So the extra features, another half-hour or so of the birds, are worth seeing too. One guy starts being kind to the parrots in his neigboring trees, and in a little more than three years they become the biggest thing in his life. Then he has to move away from them and let them fend even more for themselves. This is surprisingly emotional, and the viewer comes to care for the human hero and the personable birds quite deeply. This is a film for thinking, caring, tree-hugging, wildlife-loving folks.
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