Clint Eastwood brings a lifelong love of jazz to and won a Best Director Golden Globe Award for this gripping story of pioneering jazzman Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. Like a jazz riff, past and future overlap as the movie explores Bird's soaring skill and destructive excesses. In his Cannes Film Festival Best Actor performance, future Academy Award Winner Forest Whitaker in the title role is a candle ablaze at both ends. Diane Venora shares that glorious light, the New York Film Critics' Best Supporting Actress choice as steadfast wife Chan Parker. Blending Parker solo recordings with modern musicians, Bird soars on its soundtrack, winner of a Best Sound Academy Award. In Eastwood's hands, Bird truly stunningly lives.
Production Year:
1988
Released:
Tue, 06/01/2010
Run Time Minutes:
161
Genres:
Drama
Genres:
Music
Trailer:
No
Format Aspect Ratio:
1.85-Wide Screen
Resolution:
480x720 LowRez
More Information:
HD-4
Audio Language:
English
Audio Format:
Dolby Digital
Audio Channels:
5.1
Actors:
Forest Whitaker - Charlie "Bird" Parker
Actors:
Diane Venora - Chan Parker
Actors:
Michael Zelniker - Red Rodney
Actors:
Samuel E. Wright - Dizzy
Actors:
Keith David - Buster Franklin
Actors:
Michael McGuire - Brewster
Actors:
James Handy - Esteves
Actors:
Damon Whitaker - Young Bird
Actors:
Morgan Nagler - Kim
Actors:
Arlen Dean Snyder - Dr. Heath
Actors:
Sam Robards - Moscowitz
Actors:
Penelope Windust - Bellevue Nurse
Actors:
Glenn Wright - Alcoholic Patient
Actors:
George Orrison - Patient with Checkers
Actors:
Bill Cobbs - Dr. Caulfield
Actors:
Hamilton Camp - Mayor of 52nd Street
Actors:
Chris Bosley - First Doorman
Actors:
George T. Bruce - Second Doorman
Actors:
Joey Green - Gene
Actors:
John Witherspoon - Sid
Actors:
Tony Todd - Frog
Actors:
Jo De Winter - Mildred Berg
Actors:
Richard Zavaglia - Ralph the Narc
Actors:
Anna Levine - Audrey
Actors:
Al Pugliese - Owner - Three Deuces
Actors:
Hubert Kelly - Wilson
Actors:
Billy J. Mitchell - Prince
Actors:
Karl Vincent - Stratton
Actors:
Lou Cutell - Bride's Father
Actors:
Roger Etienne - Parisian Emcee
Actors:
Jason Bernard - Benny Tate
Actors:
Gretchen Oehler - Southern Nurse
Actors:
Richard McKenzie - Southern Doctor
Actors:
Tony Cox - Pee Wee Marquette
Actors:
Diane Salinger - Baroness Nica
Actors:
Johnny Adams - Bartender
Actors:
Natalia Silverwood - Red's Girlfriend
Actors:
Duane Matthews - Engineer
Actors:
Slim Jim Phantom - Grainger
Actors:
Matthew Faison - Judge
Actors:
Peter Crook - Bird's Lawyer
Actors:
Alec Paul Rubinstein - Recording Producer
Actors:
Patricia Herd - Nun
Actors:
Steve Zettler - Owner - Oasis Club
Actors:
Ann Weldon - Violet Welles
Actors:
Charley Lang - D.J. at the Paramount
Actors:
Tim Russ - Harris
Actors:
Richard Jeni - Morello
Actors:
Don Starr - Doctor at Nica's
Actors:
Richard Mawe - Medical Examiner