Melanie is a newspaper heiress, a rich socialite with enough time on her hands to get into plenty of trouble. As the film progresses, her glamorous façade is slowly stripped away until our golden...

Mitch the Louse"I think you're a louse," Melanie tells Mitch Brenner. "I am," he responds. And he's right. He is a louse—at first.Consider the evidence. The first thing Mitch does is play a pract...

The Anti-MelanieAnnie, Mitch's ex-girlfriend, is down to earth. Literally. The first time we see Annie, she's covered in dirt from gardening. And, when we first see her and Melanie in a scene toget...

Poor Lydia.Lydia is kind of a mess. Her husband died several years before our story gets started, and she hasn't gotten over it (obviously). Because she's now clinging to Mitch, she's unhappy when...

Cathy is Mitch's kid sister—and being a kid sister is 100 percent her character. She's cute and winsome and … cute. She adores Mitch, and she likes Melanie because Melanie brought her some love...

What are the chances that an ornithologist happens to be wandering through Bodega Bay? Though, to be fair, the chances of birds suddenly deciding to attack humankind aren't very good, either. If yo...

The townspeople and schoolchildren mostly mill about, wonder why the birds are attacking, worry about the bird attacks, and/or get attacked by birds. Great life.They're there to give you the sense...