Bird
"There are no second acts in American lives."
Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.
- Genre: Drama, Music
- Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions
- Keyword: jazz, heroin, saxophone, biography, psychiatric hospital, heroin addict, electroconvulsive therapy, death of daughter, bebop, eiffel tower, paris, 1950s
- Cast: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire