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"Let's continue with Hitchcock," you say. "I'll even give you your choice."

"Then let's go with The Birds," she says as she searches for it.

The movie comes up, she selects it, and it begins as you have a bit more teriyaki chicken. Raven snuggles in extra close, but also to dip chicken in the cup.

Young socialite Melanie Daniels, known for rather racy behavior and playing pranks, meets lawyer Mitch Brenner in a San Francisco bird shop. He wants to purchase a pair of lovebirds for his sister's eleventh birthday, but the shop has none. He had seen her in court once before when her recklessness resulted in the breaking of a plate-glass window, but she does not know him.

Attracted to her as he is, he plays a prank by pretending to mistake her for a salesperson. She is infuriated when she discovers this, even though she also likes to play practical jokes. Then, intrigued by his veiled advance, she finds his weekend address in Bodega Bay, purchases a pair of lovebirds, and makes the long drive to deliver them.

"Such an innocent start," Raven says. "So great."

When Melanie arrives, she finds he is not there, so she leaves the birdcage inside the Brenner family home, with a note. He spots her on the water through a pair of binoculars during her retreat, and races across the bay to head her off. She is suddenly attacked and injured by a seagull near shore on the town side. After making sure she is alright, he invites her to dinner, and she hesitantly agrees.

Melanie gets to know Mitch, his alternately domineering and needy mother Lydia, and his younger sister Cathy who the birds were for. She also befriends local schoolteacher Annie Hayworth, Mitch's ex-lover.

When Melanie spends the night at Annie's house they are startled by a loud thud; a gull has killed itself by flying into the front door. At Cathy's birthday party the next day, the guests are set upon by more seagulls! And that evening, sparrows invade the Brenner home through the chimney!

"How well do you think the tower would withstand a bird attack?" you ask.

"Well there's no chimney, and the windows are strong plate glass," she says. "Though, I think we'd have to worry about Beast Boy contracting the same avian disease or whatever it is making the birds go crazy."

"Hmm..." you nod as you look back at the movie.

The next morning, Lydia, a widow who still sees to the family farmstead, pays a visit to a neighboring farmer to discuss the unusual behavior of her chickens. But she finds his eyeless corpse pecked lifeless by those birds, and flees in terror!

After being comforted by Melanie and Mitch, Lydia expresses concern for Cathy's safety at school. Melanie drives there and waits for class to end, unaware that a large murder of crows are massing in the nearby playground.

Raven curls her legs and smiles in anticipation. She even rests against you lightly as she keeps eating teriyaki chicken.

Melanie is unnerved when she sees the jungle gym covered by the black birds, so she goes into the schoolhouse and warns Annie. Together, they calmly tell the children school is over for the day, and evacuate the children to the main street.

The commotion stirs the crows into attacking, injuring several of the children as they run. A young girl is seriously injured after being felled by the crows, her eyeglasses shattering. She calls on Cathy for help and Melanie pushes them inside a parked car, blasting the horn as crows engulf the vehicle.

The footage is a bit cheesy by today's standards, but Raven seems to still fully embrace the crows flying around and tormenting the young boys and girls.
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