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

Rob Cohen

Ted Field

Robert W. Cort

John Badham

Robert Primes

Hans Zimmer

Dallas Puett

Philip Harrison

Richard Hudolin

Eduardo Castro

Rick Patton

Mic Rodgers

Betty Thomas Quee

Rose Marie McSherry

Frank Morriss

David Seltzer

Richard Coleman

Kenna Marshall-Pittman

Sandy Cochrane

Daniel R. Bradette

Douglas Craik

Paul R. Prince

Paul Guenette

Richard Patton

Jeff Jones

Emma E. Hickox

Nigel Hollick

William L. Manger

Milton C. Burrow

Neil Burrow

Scott Burrow

Gordon Davidson

Larry Mann

Richard Oswald

Bill Wyley

Bill Voigtlander

Kelly L. Manger

Robyn A. Manger

Stephen Dewey

Rick Alexander

James Bolt

Robert L. Hoyt

Albert Romero

Allen L. Stone

Thom Wells

R.D. 'Luther' Fairbairn

Monique Prudhomme

E. Thomas Case

Sherry Linder-Gygli

Lyndell Quiyou

Stephen Jackson

Colin Gray

Richard Buckmaster

Tim Hogan

Oliver Berg

John L. Brown

Mark Davidson

Joanne Quirk

H. Chuck Robinson

James Clare

Glen Moseley

Chris Hayward

Michael J. Siver

Stewart Bethune

Chris Rudolph

Elizabeth Aird

Joseph Lederer

Nikita Knatz

Dave Bowe

John G. Oliver

Carol McDonald

Lorraine Baird

Joey Steele

Beverly Wiens

Jeanie Lamb

Gretchen Goode

Jim Rankin

Sandra Couldwell

Barbara Harris

Donah Bassett

Shirley Walker

Steve Bartek

Louis Venosta

Eric Lerner

Cheryl Wheeler Duncan

Kurt Bryant

Melissa R. Stubbs

Jim Dunn

Tom Glass

Mike Crestejo

Gene Heck

Ernie Jackson

Ken Kirzinger

Action

Adventure

Comedy

Romance

Bird on a Wire

Universal Pictures

Interscope Communications

The Badham-Cohen Group

United States of America

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.

English

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