Dr. Bird's Advice for Sad Poets

““I am James Whitman. I am light. I am truth. I am might. I am youth.””

James Whitman (Lucas Jade Zumann) is sixteen, anxious and low, and the only therapist he trusts is Dr. Bird (voiced by Jason Isaacs), a giant imaginary pigeon who talks him through his days. Yaniv Raz writes the pigeon's advice as dry and oddly practical, set against a house and a school where James has few people to talk to. Sophie (Taylor Russell) is among the few who get close, and James is still working out how to let them.