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Bird

Bird

6,9 /10 (352 Votes)
1988 EN 161 min

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.

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Release date

01/06/1988

Votes

352

Popularity

1.9

"There are no second acts in American lives."

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

161 min

Budget

$9,000,000

Revenue

$2,000,000

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r96sk

r96sk

2022-02-02

⭐ 5

I personally found <em>'Bird'</em> - 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…

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