# Bird (1988)

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**Runtime**: 161 min
**Genres**: Drama, Music
**Directed by**: Clint Eastwood
**Written by**: Joel Oliansky
**Starring**: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire

> *"There are no second acts in American lives."*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Bird meets Miles without the bebop. A saxophone prodigy lands in 1940s New York playing like lightning in a bottle. His fall into addiction fractures what’s left of his genius and the people who bet on it. Eastwood’s trumpet carries the wreckage.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, gut-punch, slow-burn

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