A woman named Bird goes home to plan her up coming wedding along the way she tries to reconnect with her mom and deal with a neighbor who bought an old house next door.
BIRD IN THE HAND is an amusing film but it isn’t likely to hang with you. I saw the film some 24 hours before I sat down to write about it but I found that most of the film had vanished from my memory. That’s not an absolute knock on the film, I did enjoy it when it was on, but it does mean that down the road I will probably be wondering if I saw it when it gets a release.
To be honest the one over riding thought about the film is that it is one of a number recent films where mothers try to connect with their mothers who are distant and self-absorbed. It seems like a number of filmmakers are trying to sort out their own lives. What I find extremely interesting is that the woman at the center are handfuls them self. They are all not your typical female characters. I like that we are getting women who are complex, even at the cost of them not being wholly likeable.
In the present film Bird is a handful, and not particularly a warm and fuzzy person. She does what she wants, to the extent of breaking into her mother’s house and insisting on staying there to plan the wedding.
As a result of filmmakers not following the same path we are getting films that break the mold, and even if they are not giving us completely likeable characters we are not getting films we’ve seen a dozen times before.
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