# Rio (Full VHS)

In Brazil, various exotic birds are smuggled out of the country. In Moose Lake, Minnesota, a crate with a orphaned male Spix's macaw hatchling who is unable to fly, falls out of a truck and is found by a little girl named Linda Gunderson, who names him Blu. Over the next 15 years, Linda comes to own a bookstore. Highly tame and unable to fly because he is scared to, Blu is ridiculed frequently by the Canada geese that come by outside of Linda's bookstore because of this. One day, in late winter, ornithologist Túlio Monteiro invites Blu and Linda to Rio de Janeiro because Blu, who is the last known male of his species, needs to mate with the last known female macaw. Linda initially refuses, but later accepts and they fly to Rio. At Túlio's aviary, Blu meets Jewel, a fiercely independent Spix's macaw female longing to flee back to the wilderness. The macaws are captured by Fernando, an orphaned boy who works for a group of smugglers led by Marcel, who wants to leave the country as soon as possible to secure a black market deal regarding Blu and Jewel. While Fernando has second thoughts about his actions, Marcel's pet sulphur-crested cockatoo Nigel tells the macaws that he desires to exact revenge on "pretty birds" after a parakeet replaced his role on a television show. Because of Blu's familiarity with cages, he is able to escape with Jewel and flee into the jungle. Fernando meets Linda and Túlio and helps them find the birds, while Blu and Jewel meet Rafael, a toco toucan,…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 2011
- By: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/rio-full-vhs_202508)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

Not offered: its uploader or archive marks it public domain, and nothing the site holds bears that out (its record gives no year, or a year from 1978 on, which no US term has left), so where it is free is not known. Unclear is not offered.