The Birds PG-13

...and remember, the next scream you hear may be your own!
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DVD Details

  • Rated: PG-13
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: July 12, 2016
  • Originally Released: 1963
  • Label: Universal Studios

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Certified Fresh95%

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 176,371
Rating: 5/5 -- The true genius of the film, based on a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, is the way Hitchcock makes the malevolent birds seem like manifestations of his characters' mental unease. Full Review
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sep 30, 2015
...Hitchcock's shocker will peck away at your sanity...
Total Film
Dec 1, 2003
Rating: 3.5/4 -- In the thick of an impeccable narrative that pays deep attention to all those involved, the great filmmaker manages to reach far inside the psychological chasm and find a rich inspiration. Full Review
Cinemaphile.org
Mar 21, 2015
[Hedren] is the ne plus ultra of Hitchcock's icy blondes...
Premiere
Apr 1, 2004
Hitchcock prolongs his prelude to horror for more than half the film, playing with audience suspense with comedy and romance while he sets his stage. The horror when it comes is a hair-raiser ... Full Review
Hollywood Reporter
Mar 28, 2017
The only characters in the film who aren't birdbrains are the birds. Full Review
Esquire Magazine
Aug 12, 2019
The picture pursues these false clues with excessive long-windedness and occasional fatuity. It is a tribute to Hitchcock's mastery of his craft that, even so, he makes overpoweringly real the menace of the birds. Full Review
America Magazine
Jul 29, 2015

Product Description:

In THE BIRDS, Alfred Hitchcock's heart-pounding follow-up to PSYCHO, the director couples a tone of rigorous morality with dark humor to create a thriller that begins as a light comedy and ends as an apocalyptic allegory. Tippi Hedren (Melanie Griffith's mother) carries the picture in her first film role ever, embarking on a career as an icy-cool leading lady. Loosely based on a Daphne du Maurier story and a Santa Monica newspaper account, "Seabird Invasion Hits Coastal Homes," THE BIRDS also features groundbreaking special effects that, in 1963, surprised and delighted audiences.

Wealthy reformed party girl Melanie Daniels (Hedren) enjoys a brief flirtation with lawyer Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor) in a San Francisco pet shop and decides to follow him to his Bodega Bay home. Bearing a gift of two lovebirds, Melanie quickly strikes up a romance with Mitch while contending with his possessive mother and boarding at his ex-girlfriend's house. One day, during a birthday party for Mitch's younger sister, a flock of birds attacks the children in what seems to be a random incident. In fact, it signals the beginning of a massive avian assault on the residents of the town--a mysterious assault that no one can explain...and from which no one may come out alive.

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  • Sales Rank: 130,705
  • UPC: 025192365508
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