Bird (Spanish) (Sub)

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	Bird (Spanish) (Sub)
	$6.99 At Amazon on 6-29-2008.

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David

Directors: Clint Eastwood

Format: Color, NTSC

Language: English

Subtitles: Spanish

Rating:

Number of tapes: 1

Studio: Warner Home Video

VHS Release Date: April 13, 1993

Run Time: 161 minutes

Average Customer Review:

34 customer reviews

Amazon.com essential video
Clint Eastwood's moody, evocative direction and Forest Whitaker's strong, sensitive performance are the chief proponents to recommend an otherwise muted biopic of '40s jazz legend Charlie Parker, who fell victim to his chemical excesses and convinced the doctor who pronounced him dead that he was a good four decades older than he actually was. The film doesn't try to assign clear blame for Parker's demons, though the era's racism is addressed unflinchingly. Clearly a labor of love, Eastwood's movie structurally attempts to ape the angular music of bebop itself (there are flashbacks within flashbacks, which gets a little confusing), but doesn't quite capture the smolder of the period. Diane Venora registers strongly as Bird's wife, Chan, the woman who can't rescue Bird from the abyss into which he peers. --David Kronke

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