Bird [Special Edition][Bonus Soundtrack CD]

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Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In his struggles to gain widespread acceptance for his music, "Bird" is forever stymied by his own self-destructiveness, and forever bailed out by the love of his life, Chan Richardson Parker (Diane Venora). The film bemoans the decline of the brand of jazz fathered by Parker, which came to be replaced by more conventional material -- as illustrated by the "descent" into the mainstream of Parker's mentor Buster Franklin. Also starring in Bird is Samuel E. Wright as Dizzy Gillespie. That's the real Charlie "Bird" Parker on the film's soundtrack, though most of the background music has been re-orchestrated. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Color	Color
Director	Clint Eastwood
Editor	Joel Cox
Format	DVD
Language	English/French
Rating	R
Run Time	160 min
Special Effects	Joe Day
Stars	Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Sam Wright, Keith David
Subtitles	English/French/Espanol/Por
Year Released	1988

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