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Bird
Running Time: 160 min.
MPAA Rating: R
Box Office: / $2,181,286
Sound By: Dolby
Produced By: / Malpaso / Warner Brothers
Released: September 30, 1988 (USA)
Release By: Warner Brothers

Summary:
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-wh... Full Summary >>

Cast and Crew: Forest Whitaker (Charlie "Yardbird" Parker) Diane Venora (Chan Richardson Parker) Michael Zelniker (Red Rodney) Sam Wright (Dizzy Gillespie) All Cast & Crew >> 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 ori ... Continue >>

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