Fresh
Sensitively acted, beautifully planned visually and dynamite musically, this is a dramatic telling of the troubled life of a revolutionary artist.
Variety Staff, Variety
Bird
"There are no second acts in American lives."
1988 · 2h 41m · R
Drama, Music
Directed by
Clint Eastwood
Overview
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
Director and cast
- Clint Eastwood Director
- Forest Whitaker as Charlie 'Bird' Parker
- Diane Venora as Chan Parker
- Keith David as Buster Franklin
- Damon Whitaker as Young Bird
- Michael Zelniker as Red Rodney
- Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy Gillespie
- Michael McGuire as Brewster
- James Handy as Esteves
- Morgan Nagler as Kim
- Arlen Dean Snyder Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Bird is less moving as a character study than it is as a tribute and as a labor of love. The portrait it offers, though hazy at times, is one Charlie Parker's admirers will recognize.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Whitaker sweats, vomits, blows and wails as the Bird (so named for hanging around jazz clubs like a yardbird), laying in some minor-key grace to Parker's self-destruction along the way. But he never lets you into his darkest fears.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
Fresh
Even though, thematically, the movie won't come clear, Eastwood has succeeded so thoroughly in communicating his love of his subject, and there's such vitality in the performances, that we walk out elated, juiced on the actors and the music.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
Fresh
Whitaker occupies this world as a large, friendly, sometimes taciturn man who tries to harm nobody and who cannot understand why the world would not let him play his music. Neither can we.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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