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Plot Summary
Hal Bartlett co-wrote and directed this film curiosity, based on Richard Bach's best-selling fable, featuring an overbearing music score by Neil Diamond. The story begins as a flock of seagulls are pecking at the garbage left by a boat that has dumped a bunch of fish heads in the surf. One of the seagulls, Jonathan (voice of James Franciscus), would rather leave his life of garbage-picking and fly high in the sky to see other parts of the earth. Jonathan leaves the flock and flies around the world. He travels so far that he reaches an aviary heaven, where he meets Maureen Seagull (voice of Juliet Mills). Maureen introduces Jonathan to new experiences, and Jonathan returns to the flock to tell them the news. The other seagulls scorn him, but then they take notice when he heals a seagull that has died. Then the entire flock greets him as "the Son of the Great Gull."
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
11%- Reviews Counted: 9
- Fresh: 1
- Rotten: 8
- Average Rating: 3.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Now there's nothing wrong with uplift, except that exhortations customarily are banal. That is, the end is nearly destroyed by the means.
Rotten: This has got to be the biggest pseudocultural, would-be metaphysical ripoff of the year.
Rotten: Richard Bach's best-selling parable for freshmen becomes on screen a very spelled-out allegory, complete with flat voice-overs and pretentious Neil Diamond soundtrack.
Customer Reviews
jonathan livingston seagull
ok, the music is not the best part, but the book was actually the best book the Bach ever wrote, and was his first book, which took years to get published. Ignore the lame description written about the movie; whoever wrote that was clueless. The idea, embodied in the seagull, is really about searching and learning about what really matters. It is a beautifully choreographed and well done film. If you like to think about what you watch, this is well worthwhile. rw
Wow
Saw this as a kid in Venezuela, my Dad (R.I.P)., dug the book and the cheesy Neil Diamond music, which I somehow still love (must be the nostalgia factor) and took my brother and I to see it. It had a powerful effect on us. Its about not being mediocre and trying to see how fast and how far you can fly in this short life you have.....
Beautifull
Fantastic picture, very nice music (a little cheesy for the people that did not like the 80's). It's not exactly a little kid movie (lots of meta physical thougt from those seagulls ;>), but it is a magnificient tale. Extremely enjoyable on large screen TV!! I loved it!
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- $14.99
- Genre: Drama
- Released: 1973
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