The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie Parker.The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie Parker.The troubled life and career of jazz musician Charlie Parker.
- Won 1 Oscar
- 10 wins & 9 nominations total
Glenn Wright
- Alcoholic Patient
- (as Glenn T. Wright)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaClint Eastwood approached Chan Parker, Charlie Parker's common-law wife on whose memoirs the script was based, for input. She gave Eastwood a collection of lost recordings she'd kept in a bank vault.
- GoofsWhen Charlie Parker goes to Dizzy Gillespie's house in the middle of the night and asks Dizzy to write down a tune, the year is 1953. The tune is "Now's the Time", published and recorded in 1945.
- Quotes
Doctor at Nica's: [while Bird's body is being retired] Charles Christopher Parker, Junior. Preliminary diagnosis: heart attack. Stocky, male, negro. Approximately 65 years of age.
Baroness Nica: [with a sad look] He was 34.
- Crazy creditsPre-titles card: "There are no second acts in American lives." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- SoundtracksMary Land, My Maryland
Performed by Lennie Niehaus
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I. feel that the person that wrote negative things about the movie "Bird" missed the point. He mentioned the fact that the movie didn't go into the interracial marrige of Charlie and Chan Parker. I for one am glad that it didn't. I hate movies that beat the audience over the head with the fact that people can't, won't,and don't except blacks and whites in relationships that are positive. I felt that even though Mr. Parker had an addiction to drugs and had a wondering eye at times, he truely loved his wife. Mrs Parker not only loved her husband the jazz musician but her husband the man and looked out for his well being as best she could. The movie never let me forget that he was an addict but it also showed his genious and creativity. I'd give it a 9 because there was an uneveness about it that made it less than pefect. I truely wished that they had shown more of how he interacted with other greats like Miles Davis and Art Blakey.
- Bellfire32
- Jul 24, 2003
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,181,286
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,116
- Oct 2, 1988
- Gross worldwide
- $2,181,474
- Runtime2 hours 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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