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Plot: A biography of jazz saxaphonist Charlie Yardbird Parker.
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MCT:September 19, 2008
A film that will bring shame to melodramatic Eastwood attempts like Changeling,Million Dollar Baby and overall a brilliant biography of a prolific jazz musician.Moody,plunging in details and yet the culmination in so many viewpoints offers such a joy and pity at the same time,the music is a sorrowful mourn to a past legend.
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MCT:February 18, 2008By far Clint Eastwood's most underrated film. As a fan of Parker's music this movie is really one of the great bio-pics. The music is terrific as well as Forest Whitaker's performance and Bird is a very powerful, honest and heartfelt tribute the Charlie Yardbird Paker.
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MCT:December 16, 2007Forest Whitaker gives a great performance and the music is outstanding. However I didn't find the story all that interesting and the movie did seem to drag on too long.
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MCT:November 19, 2007
Forest Whitaker shines in the role of the great jazz saxaphonist Charlie Parker in this film; his genious and talent cannot prevail over his tragic descent into heroin addiction & mental illness. The talented Diane Verona ( Al Pacino's wife in Heat ) stars as well
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MCT:August 15, 2007
Overlooked and underappreciated biopic on the life of bebop dynamo Charlie "Bird" Parker. People often forget that Clint Eastwood can direct and this here is testament to the fact. Not the easiest role to play as Bird lived a fast life in such a short span of time but Forest Whitaker holds his own. Great lighting and casting. Enthralling but ultimately tragic.
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MCT:August 10, 2007Charlie Parker was the greatest sax player, if not musician, so I must watch this movie! Having said that, soul brother Maceo P. (whom I met once during a magazine interview in Hannover during his ?Roots Revisited? tour, great guy!) is also very big, so I must see his movie ? My First Name is Maceo? as well!!! ;)
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MCT:May 9, 2007My favorite Clint Eastwood Directed movie, about Jazz Legend Charley Parker, and his degeneration unto death through drug abuse, Parker played by Forest Whitaker in one of the altime great roles in film period.
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MCT:February 22, 2007
It's Chan's version of Charlie Parker, and she was with him near the end, so we don't see his more successful years. This makes the movie pretty dark throughout. It's very intense and the music is great.
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MCT:September 26, 2006
Absolutely fabulous film about the life of Charlie Parker, expertly casted plus the music is excellent
