Bird(1988)

🎬161 min
📅1988-06-01
🎭Drama, Music
⭐6.9/10

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.

Production

Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions

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Cast

Forest Whitaker
as Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Diane Venora
as Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker
as Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright
as Dizzy Gillespie
Keith David
as Buster Franklin
Michael McGuire
as Brewster
James Handy
as Esteves
Damon Whitaker
as Young Bird
Morgan Nagler
as Kim
Arlen Dean Snyder
as Dr. Heath

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