Bird

Name: Bird
Genre: Drama
Released: 2017-09-09

Drama12m

🍅81%

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81%

Tomatometer

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79%

Popcornmeter

Storyline

When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.

Details

DirectorMolly Parker

ReleasedSep 9, 2017

StatusReleased

Original languageEnglish

Budget

Not disclosed

Revenue

Not disclosed

Parental guideNot rated

Cast

Amanda Plummer

Sam

Géza Kovács

Vic

Clare Coulter

Charlotte

Reviews

8 reviews · 7 critics

5 fresh · 2 rotten

Critics consensus

“Forest Whitaker inhabits Charlie Parker with aplomb in this moving love letter to the music icon, told by director Clint Eastwood with a moody style that visually evokes the wistful rhythm of jazz.”

81% TomatometerRotten Tomatoes

Richard Combs

RTSight & SoundJan 16, 2020

What the film pulls off is the difficult fusion of this kind of accuracy with larger 'truths' which are no respecter of accuracy.

Michael Wilmington

RTLos Angeles TimesDec 11, 2018

In this movie and its hot, fast bursts of bop, Charlie Parker gets a fitting elegy.

Variety Staff

RTVarietyMar 26, 2009

Sensitively acted, beautifully planned visually and dynamite musically, this is a dramatic telling of the troubled life of a revolutionary artist.

Chance Solem-Pfeifer

RTWillamette WeekJan 22, 2025

The film slips into a level of dreamy, nonlinear creativity seldom found in Eastwood’s unfussy directorial style. Would-be framing devices become multidimensional narrative portals.