Paulie is a 1998 American family film about a talking parrot named "Paulie". It was directed by John Roberts and written by Laurie Craig, and it was produced by Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, and Allyson Lyon Segan for Mutual Film Company and DreamWorks. The movie stars Jay Mohr as Paulie's voice and Tony Shalhoub as a janitor who finds him imprisoned in a biological research laboratory, along with Gena Rowlands, Cheech Marin, Bruce Davison, and Trini Alvarado. It also features Buddy Hackett in his final film role, and Mohr also plays a minor on-screen character. The film was released on VHS in... 1998 by DreamWorks Home Entertainment. Misha Belenkoff is a Russian immigrant, who was a former literature teacher in Russia, and he is living in America and working as a janitor at an animal-testing lab in California. One day, he cleans up the cages and he encounters Paulie , a blue-crowned conure who astonishingly speaks to him in perfect English. But Paulie doesn't talk when Misha brings witnesses. Misha persuades Paulie to tell him his life story with pieces of mango.
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| Release date: | April 17, 1998 |
| Directed by: | John Roberts |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 91 Minutes |
| Producer: | Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Allison Lyon Segan |
| Editor: | Bruce Cannon |
| Music by: | John Debney |
| Cinematography: | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| Screenplay by: | Laurie Craig |
| Estimated budget: | $23,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Adventure |