Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 161 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
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.
- jazz
- heroin
- saxophone
- biography
- psychiatric hospital
- heroin addict
- electroconvulsive therapy
- death of daughter
- bebop
- eiffel tower
- paris
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Forest Whitaker
Charlie 'Bird' Parker
Diane Venora
Chan Parker
Michael Zelniker
Red Rodney
Samuel E. Wright
Dizzy Gillespie
- Keith David — Buster Franklin
- Michael McGuire — Brewster
- James Handy — Esteves
- Damon Whitaker — Young Bird
- Morgan Nagler — Kim
- Arlen Dean Snyder — Dr. Heath
- Sam Robards — Moscowitz
- Glenn Wright — Alcoholic Patient
- George Orrison — Patient with Checkers
- Bill Cobbs — Dr. Caulfield
- Hamilton Camp — Mayor of 52nd Street
- Directed
- Clint Eastwood
- Written
- Joel Oliansky
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 358 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures, Malpaso Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
