Birdy (Blu-ray) R
A soaring experience unlike anything you've ever seen before.
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Blu-ray Details
- ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 25, 2019
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Sony Screen Classics by Request
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Matthew Modine & Nicolas Cage | |
Performer: | John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Bruno Kirby & Marshall Bell | |
Directed by | Alan Parker | |
Edited by | Gerry Hambling | |
Screenplay by | Jack Behr & Sandy Kroopf | |
Original story by | William Wharton | |
Composition by | Peter Gabriel | |
Produced by | Alan Marshall | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Seresin |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
There's something truly beautiful about this friendship story, the adaptation is wonderful, the music brilliant, and the ending sublime.
ÜberCiné
Rating: 5/5 --
A haunting and unpredictable film that more people need to discover.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Belying the lightheartedness of its title, Birdy is a heavy adult drama about best friends and the after-effects of war, but it takes too long to live up to its ambitious premise.
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Variety
Cage struggles with a character that is no more than a foil to Birdy...
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Washington Post
Raising issues about the nature of madness and what constitutes true freedom, this is a curiously arty film from Parker, a frequently unsubtle director, usually so dismissive of any kind of pretension, but a gripping one, nonetheless.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
Striking Alan Parker film too often overlooked.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Rating: 4/4 --
A very strange and beautiful movie.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
To escape an irrational world, Birdy (Matthew Modine), a Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital, where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Al Columbato (Nicolas Cage), Birdy's loyal best friend of his youth. Al desperately tries to reach the disturbed Birdy and bring him back to reality. The answer may lie in their youth, where the eccentric Birdy first donned wings and the happy-go-lucky Al helped him to fly.
Product Info
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