Bird
Directed by:
Clint EastwoodScreenplay:
Joel OlianskyCinematography:
Jack N. GreenCast:
Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, James Handy, Sam Robards, Bill Cobbs, Arlen Dean Snyder, John Witherspoon, Tony Todd, Anna Levine (more)VOD (1)
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The year: 1946. The event: Oakland's "Jazz at the Philharmonic." The music streaked into the unknown, daring listeners to grab hold and fly there, too. On stage was the creator of those new sounds: Charles "Yardbird" Parker. In the crowd was the 16-year-old who would someday bring Parker's extraordinary story to the screen: Clint Eastwood. "Americans don't have any original art except Western movies and jazz," observes Eastwood. Movie fans, of course, know that few heroes sit as tall in the saddles as Eastwood. Now the legendary America icon, whose Dirty Harry films have been praised for their jazz scores, ventures deeper into that other original American art. (official distributor synopsis)
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If you like the atmosphere of pre-war America, you like jazz and you like Forest Whitaker, this biopic is just right for you.
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