Brewster McCloud - Robert Altman (1970)

A young man named Brewster McCloud secretly lives in a fallout room in the Houston Astrodome, where he is building a pair of wings to be able to fly. Only Hope, a health food store clerk, knows he's there, she who supplies what he needs to live, although an overweight security guard at the dome suspects something is going on with this young man who he constantly sees but who is always able to outrun/outwit him. Brewster has a Gremlin-driving, trench coat attired guardian angel who makes sure that he reaches their mutual end goal albeit under her rules. Things have the potential to change when Brewster meets Suzanne Davis, a part-time race car driver and new tour guide at the dome, she who starts to fall for Brewster without knowing either that he lives at the dome or has this dream to fly. Associated with the goings-on with Brewster, wealthy Houstonian Haskell Weeks under his own dollar brings in famed San Francisco detective Frank Shaft to assist the Houston PD with the investigation into a string a strangulation murders. While lead investigator Captain Crandall follows what he considers the normal course of murder investigations, Shaft, who demands things be done his own way, which he is able to do with the help of traffic cop Johnson, wants to focus on one specific aspect which Crandall and his team have ignored but which seems to be common to all the murders beyond the strangulation, namely that each victim was hit with bird droppings. Through it all, an expert in his field provides a lecture on the reason for the behavior displayed with Brewster and those caught in his vortex.