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You're a young socialite in an Alfred Hitchcock film,

and you've just met the cutest defense attorney in a San Francisco pet shop.

His name is Mitch and he wants to buy a pair of lovebirds for his sister's 11th birthday.

Everybody loves birds, right?

They're beautiful, harmless creatures. Who knows? Maybe this time

Alfred Hitchcock is making a romcom. You decide to drive out and visit Mitch at his

home in Bodega Bay. It's a beautiful temperate summer and everything's going just swell.

But on your way back, from his house in your boat, you get attacked by a seagull.

It's weird that a seagull would attack you.

They're usually not very threatening.

It's doubly odd that a seagull would attack you with a hammer.

Where did it get the hammer?

How did it learn to use it?

Whatever the case, Mitch is a gentleman, and he patches up your abrasion and invites you to dinner with his mom, played by Jessica Tandy, and his younger sister, Kathy, portrayed by Veronica Cartwright.

Also, for some reason, Mitch's ex-lover Annie is hanging around.

That's fine though, because it's 1963.

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