Forest Whitaker

Diane Venora

Michael Zelniker

Samuel E. Wright

Keith David

Michael McGuire

James Handy

Damon Whitaker

Morgan Nagler

Arlen Dean Snyder

Sam Robards

Glenn Wright

George Orrison

Bill Cobbs

Hamilton Camp

Chris Bosley

George T. Bruce

Joey Green

John Witherspoon

Tony Todd

Jo De Winter

Richard Zavaglia

Anna Thomson

Al Pugliese

Hubert Kelly

Billy J. Mitchell

Karl Vincent

Lou Cutell

Roger Etienne

Jason Bernard

Gretchen Oehler

Richard McKenzie

Tony Cox

Diane Salinger

Penelope Windust

Ann Weldon

Clint Eastwood

Phyllis Huffman

Joel Oliansky

Edward C. Carfagno

David Valdes

Joel Cox

Lennie Niehaus

Rick Alexander

Joseph A. Ippolito

Marshall Winn

Teri E. Dorman

David M. Horton

Marcia Reed

Jack N. Green

Virginia Cook-McGowan

Les Fresholtz

Vern Poore

Robert G. Henderson

Walter Newman

Lloyd Nelson

Willie D. Burton

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Bird

Warner Bros. Pictures

Malpaso Productions

United States of America

English

I personally found <em>'Bird'</em> - directed by Clint Eastwood - to be an absolute slog to sit through.

It's an interesting story no doubt, but it's told in the most mundane and boring way possible. I didn't know anything about Charlie Parker beforehand, which is what kept that aforementioned interest there. I'm no jazz fan either, but I am always happy to listen to it when it comes up though.

Despite that, I just couldn't get into the film itself. It just felt like it was 160 minutes (!) worth of the following on repeat: performance, drunk and/or depressed, performance, drunk and/or depressed etc. I didn't feel like I was learning anything about Parker and his life. I literally gave an internal cheer when the credits finally rolled around.

I do enjoy Forest Whitaker as an actor and he is probably the reason I'm not rating this lower. As for the rest, I don't even recall any of them - though I'm putting that down to what I've already noted, as opposed to the cast themselves who I'm sure tried their upmost.

Way too long, in short. As I said it's an intriguing person to make a film about, an around 100 minute production would've been perfect in my opinion. A shame, all in all.

Michael Schlesinger on BIRD

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