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Thief | Parrot
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Early Screens | 1998 | John
Outstanding Actor in a Feature Film | 1999 | Cheech
Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in a Crossover Role | 1999 | Trini
Best Performance in a Feature Film Young Actress Age Ten or Under | 1999 | Hallie
Best Family Feature Comedy | 1999
Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | 1998 | John
Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy Film | 1998 | Hallie
Animal stunt coordinator Boone Narr arranged seven separate bird casting calls, involving over 38 species. Blue-crown Conure parrots were deemed best, and fourteen of them were used in the production, different birds with different personalities fitting into different scenes. For scenes that were too dangerous for the live parrots, or needed complex facial expressions in close-ups, an animatronic Paulie created at the Stan Winston Studio was used.
Buddy Hackett auditioned to do the voice of Paulie but lost to Jay Mohr, who did an impression of Hackett. Buddy Hackett does appear in the film in a small role as Artie, the Pawn Broker, and during his scene Mohr also appears in person as Benny. Hackett also did the voice of the talking seagull Scuttle in The Little Mermaid (1989).
This was Buddy Hackett's final appearance in a theatrical film.
Tia Texada plays Ruby; Benny's girlfriend. She also voices Lupe who is Paulie's girlfriend for a short time. Jay Mohr plays Benny and the voice of Paulie. So, the respective actors played two different couples.
Gena Rowlands also starred as the title character in Monk: Mr. Monk and the Lady Next Door (2009) and in that episode, had a son named Paulie. Both also starred Tony Shalhoub; the title character in Monk, and in this film as Misha Vilyenkov.
"Paulie: There are things in life you put off, because you think you're gonna do them later. But the real thing Ivy taught me is you gotta live like there may not be a later."
"Ivy: You know what you are Paulie ? You're my seeing-eye parrot. [dissolve to sunset] Ivy: You've been a dear friend to me Paulie. We're birds of a feather, you and I. Betwixt and between, that's us. So what do we have tonight? Is it pretty? Paulie: Oh, very pretty. There's more orange now, and it's getting darker. Just a little gold left. Ivy: The sun must almost be set. Can you see any stars yet? Paulie: Not yet. [cut to ambulance pulling away] Paulie: And then one day, the cat got her."
