“"There are no second acts in American lives."”
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.
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
Walk the Line
The Godfather Part II
Lords of Chaos
Dead Poets Society
The Godfather
Stolen Kisses
Clean
Inside Llewyn Davis
I Saw the Light
A Complete Unknown
Elvis
Maria
La Bamba
Anatomy of a Murder
The Executioner's Song
First Printer Ivan Fedorov
Hendrix
Coda
Back to Black
Eddie and the Cruisers