 In 1992 a movie script began circulating about a group of young songwriters living in Nashville who worked at and frequented The Bluebird Café.The Bluebird was so central to the plot of the film that Kurland was flown out to LA as the technical advisor on the film.That film was the Peter Bogdanovich directed "The Thing Called Love", starring River Phoenix, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock.