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.
Bird is of 2 hour(s) and 41 minute(s). It is Produced By: Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions. It was released on 1988-06-01. It has the tagline: "There are no second acts in American lives." It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
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