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| The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill | 
| Actor: Mark Bittner
Studio: DOCURAMA
Category: DVD
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  153 reviews
Sales Rank: 3793
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Surround Sound
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Running Time: 83 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: NVGD9693D
ISBN: 0767085973
UPC: 767685969335
EAN: 9780767085977
ASIN: B000BB1534
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Release Date: December 26, 2005
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Condition: Item in very good condition, rental overstock, may or may not include insert and/or stickers, 100% guaranteed.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love at First Sight January 20, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I loved this documentary the moment I viewed it. It is a riot of color, sound, and humor that is so wanting in today's film world. I highly recommend Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill to anyone who loves animals, and particularly birds.
I fell in love with the parrots and Mark January 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This documentary is a thoroughly engrossing, enchanting story of a single, gentle, long-haired, free-spirited, jobless, "squatter" named Mark Bittner (www.markbittner.net) who finds his calling in caring for and protecting a wild flock of parrots in San Francisco's Telegraph Hill. Animal and bird lovers will find it heart warming. My only regret was seeing Mark's hair getting cut in the end, knowing that he was no longer available!! (an inside "joke" that was part of the story)
Fly High January 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
San Francisco is a one of a kind city. I fell in love with the spirit of the city long before I ever visited and once there fell in love with it all over again.
There are so many things about the city that people can associate with and although it is quite a bit of a tourist mecca there is much more to the life of the city than meets the eye.
It was in this spirit that I approached thiis film, having been referred to it on my last visit where I took an alternative route up and down from Coit Tower involving many, many steps.
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill has a certain charm and naievete much like the city where it was shot. Perhaps San Francisco is the only city in the world where wild birds could bring about a career from nothing from a self-confessed Dharma Bum.
Beautifully shot with considerable care and obvious affection for each and every one of the subjects including the humans, this beautiful little movie is full of life and hope. If there was ever a spirit of the sixties it lives on in the tolerance the locals have for the birds and their admirers and perhaps there is a lesson for all environmentalists here in the faceof global warming.
It is a beautiful and at once a sad tale and throughout we come to recognise the individual birds almost as people with whom we share some growing up time.
If anything it is a film which celebrates the uniqueness of San Francisco and it's many inhabitants which makes it quite unlike any other city on this earth.
great film December 26, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a great film to watch with the family. If you are an animal lover, you will get this film. Must see.
Be patient November 23, 2007
Obviously an excellent story with pathos and triumph. I caution would-be viewers who can lack patience - like me -- to continue watching through the first 20 minutes when the story then picks up and pieces begin to fall into place. Louis J Sheehan
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