Bird
"There are no second acts in American lives."
19882h 41mNo ratings yet
- Drama
- Music
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.
Keywords
- paris
- psychiatric hospital
- 1950s
- biography
- jazz
- heroin
- heroin addict
- death of daughter
- eiffel tower
- saxophone
- electroconvulsive therapy
- bebop
- eiffel tower, paris
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 1, 1988
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Warner Bros. Pictures,Malpaso Productions
- Cast
- Forest Whitaker,Diane Venora,Michael Zelniker,Samuel E. Wright,Keith David,Michael McGuire,James Handy,Damon Whitaker,Morgan Nagler,Arlen Dean Snyderand 26 more
- Director
- Clint Eastwood
- Writer
- Joel Oliansky
- Producer
- Clint Eastwood,David Valdes
- Cinematography
- Jack N. Green
- Music
- Lennie Niehaus
- Budget
- $9,000,000
- Revenue
- $2,000,000
- IMDb
- tt0094747