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Bird

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Bird
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R,2hrs 40min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1988
Director:
Clint Eastwood
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker  ...more
Synopsis: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In his struggles to gain widespread acceptance for his music, "Bird" is forever stymied by his own self-destructiveness, and forever bailed out by the love of his life, Chan Richardson Parker (Diane Venora). ... Full Synopsis
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Brendon Hanley, AMG Review
Apart from being a notorious tough guy, actor/director Clint Eastwood is also a notorious jazz aficionado, and Bird is his sprawling, impressive tribute to one of the great jazz saxophonists of all time, Charlie "Bird" Parker. Parker, one of the originators of bebop, died at an early age due to a long-standing relationship with the high life. Forest Whitaker, who won best actor at the Cannes Film ... Full Review
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Forest Whitaker
Charlie "Yardbird" Parker
Diane Venora
Chan Richardson Parker
Michael Zelniker
Red Rodney
Sam Wright
Dizzy Gillespie
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