Birdy R
A soaring experience unlike anything you've ever seen before.
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 11, 2017
- Originally Released: 1984
- Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
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 |
Major Awards:
Cannes 1985 -
Jury Prize: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
Movies don't get more emo. But don't hold that against it.
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eFilmCritic.com
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
Rating: B --
Though largely confined to a military hospital, this post-Vietnam drama is powerfully acted by Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
...[Modine] skillfully essays the offbeat troubled character....[Cage is] sensitive and strong....[The] supporting parts are excellently cast...
Variety
Rating: 4.5/5 --
One of those rare movies that successfully brings a psychological novel to the screen without sacrificing its saliency or complexity.
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TV Guide
Cage struggles with a character that is no more than a foil to Birdy...
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Washington Post
Rating: 4/4 --
A very strange and beautiful movie.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Product Description:
In Alan Parker's adaptation of William Wharton's acclaimed novel, the title character is a Vietnam vet hospitalized for postwar trauma. Lying in a state of amentia, Birdy (Matthew Modine) fantasizes about birds in flight, an obsession that has haunted him since childhood. Now this fascination acts as a barrier to reality and the pain of his years in Vietnam. After doctors' efforts fail to cure him, his childhood friend Al (Nicolas Cage)--also a discharged soldier nursing wounds from the war--is brought in to try to coax Birdy out of his hallucinations.
BIRDY, told largely in stark, lyrical flashbacks from Al's point of view, is both a heartrending examination of the psychological consequences of war and an ode to the spiritually rejuvenating powers of friendship and imagination. The two young leads turn in powerful, humane performances. Parker (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS) provides innovative direction, most notably in the film's stunning, controversial ending.
BIRDY, told largely in stark, lyrical flashbacks from Al's point of view, is both a heartrending examination of the psychological consequences of war and an ode to the spiritually rejuvenating powers of friendship and imagination. The two young leads turn in powerful, humane performances. Parker (MIDNIGHT EXPRESS) provides innovative direction, most notably in the film's stunning, controversial ending.
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