118: The Hairy Bird (Poodle episode) feat. Anton De Ionno

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Described as "Dead Poet's Society meets Clueless", The Hairy Bird is a 1998 film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan. Inspired by her time as a student at the Connecticut girls' boarding school Rosemary Hall in the 1960s, the film follows new student Odette Sinclair (Gaby Hoffman) as she meets the ICONIQUE headmistress Miss McVane (Lynn Redgrave) and falls in with a new clique led by Kirsten Dunst's Verena Von Stefan. No sooner is Odie welcomed in than their friend Tweetie (my girl Heather Matarazzo) overhears the school board's plans to merge Miss Godard's into a co-ed school with the nearby St Ambrose Academy.

This sets the films antics into motion, pits the boy crazy Tweetie and Tinka, an aspiring "actress-folk singer-slut", against Verena and brainiac Momo (our girl Merritt Wever) and eventually leads Odie to stage a sit-in to demand the girls at Miss Godard's have a voice in the future of their school.

Brodie is joined by her bff Anton De Ionno to discuss the sad saga behind this film's release, its legacy in our lives and many spiritual connections to Gilmore Girls.

See Alsos

• Haley Mlotek's piece in Metrograph
• Interview with Sarah Kernochan in Business Insider + in Flashback Films
• 26 years before The Holdovers, Disney buried the best boarding school comedy
• Peter Biskind’s 2004 book Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

Anton recommends

• An Unmarried Woman
• Love Is a Drag: For Adult Listeners Only
• dry-humping

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