Top billed cast

1. 

   Forest Whitaker

   Charlie 'Bird' Parker

2. 

   Diane Venora

   Chan Parker

3. 

   Michael Zelniker

   Red Rodney

4. 

   Samuel E. Wright

   Dizzy Gillespie

5. 

   Keith David

   Buster Franklin

6. 

   Michael McGuire

   Brewster

7. 

   James Handy

   Esteves

8. 

   Damon Whitaker

   Young Bird

9. 

   Morgan Nagler

   Kim

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Reviews

A review by r96sk

Written by r96sk on 2022-02-02

I personally found 'Bird' - directed by Clint Eastwood - to be an absolute slog to sit through.

It's an interesting story no doubt, but it's told in the most mundane and boring way possible. I didn't know anything about Charlie Parker beforehand, which is what kept that aforementioned interest there. I'm no jazz fan either, but I am always happy to listen to it when it comes up though.

Despite that, I just couldn't get into the film itself. It just felt like it was 160 minutes (!) worth of the following on repeat: performance, drunk and/or depressed, performance, drunk and/or de...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$9,000,000.00

Revenue
$2,000,000.00

Keywords

• jazz
• heroin
• saxophone
• biography
• psychiatric hospital
• heroin addict
• electroconvulsive therapy
• death of daughter
• bebop
• eiffel tower, paris
• 1950s