From KCRW, Santa Monica and KCRW.com, this is The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com.

You know my guest, Margaret Witten, because she has such a throaty yet fully emotional voice and a quick laugh that you've seen

and heard in movies such as Major League 1 and 2, one of my favorites, the best of times.

Maybe you go back as far as I do. You had a crush on her when she did the TV series hometown. Oh, wow. She's directed of the film written by Roger Town, A Bird of the

Air. Thanks for being here so much, Margaret. Thank you so much for having me. And so we're talking

about voices. I can't help but be aware of the voices in the film. I mean, the voice of the actors

and the narration. The fantastic Linda Eamond.

Who sounds not dissimilar to you. Thank you. I think she's got an extraordinary voice and she's

so incredibly precise with her accents. She puts just a little hint of a kind of a North Texas

accent in there. If you have a really fine ear, you can hear it.

And then also the voices of the parrot was, I mean, it was such a brain pain

because we had to get the voices of the former owners and blend them.

This is what I should get you to tell people what the movies about.

On the surface, it's a story of a solitary man who's a kind of social misfit who is sitting

in his trailer one day and an 80-year-old parrot flies into his life and has a beak full of

cryptic sayings.

And since he's been searching for meaning essentially in his life, he attaches to this

parrot all sorts of things. And then as he tries to research where this parrot has come from,

there's a woman who's had her eye on him and she kind of breaks through his socially maladroit

life and they go on a quest.

So it's really kind of a hero's quest meets a road film, you know, meets a romantic comedy,

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