Bird (1988)

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Directed by

Clint Eastwood

Starring (View all)

Forest Whitaker
Charlie 'Bird' Parker

Diane Venora
Chan Parker

Michael Zelniker
Red Rodney

Samuel E. Wright
Dizzy

Keith David
Buster Franklin

Michael McGuire
Brewster

James Handy
Esteves

Damon Whitaker
Young Bird

Written by

Joel Oliansky
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A good movie

12 years, 5 months ago at Nov 15 10:22

johanlefourbe

For some reasons, I was really eager to watch this movie and it took me about 6 years to finally find it. Indeed, since I have been playing the saxophone alt for maybe 8 years, I obviously really had to check it out. In fact, I did study Charlie Parker's music and it was basically the most difficult thing you could play on a sax. Indeed, even if I would play it 10 times slower than him, it was sti... read more

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The troubled life and career of the jazz musician, Charlie "Bird" Parker.

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" 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. The film"

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