Forest Whitaker
Charlie 'Bird' Parker
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77% Tomatometer 26 Reviews 79% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings Director Clint Eastwood, a noted jazz aficionado, directs this heartfelt study of pioneering bop saxophonist Charlie Parker (Forest ...
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“Bird” is a long, complex, ambitious movie, and it contains a lot of great music. Charles “Bird” Parker was one of the great fountainheads of jazz, a creator of bebop whose improvisations and joyful discoveries on the saxophone created a sound that is absolutely distinctive.
Trailer for Clint Eastwood's "Bird" (1988), starring Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora.
Bird is a collage of passages from Parker's remarkable life, from his childhood in Kansas City, through his tumultuous interracial relationship with Chan Richardson, to his tragic death at the age of 34. Listen as Clint Eastwood expresses his thoughts about this film as well as the legendary jazz musician.
Jun 20, 2019 · Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Keith David, Samuel E. Wright & Michael Zelniker. Released in theaters on September 30, 1988. The troubled life and career of ...
Purchase Bird (A Film by Clint Eastwood) on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Forest Whitaker stars as brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood's homage to Bird's life and genius.
Drama. arrow_forward. Academy Award-winning director Clint Eastwood ("Letters from Iwo Jima," "Flags of Our Fathers"), a well-known, long-standing jazz aficionado, delivers a compassionate portrait of jazz visionary Charlie "Yardbird" Parker.
