Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him since childhood. Birdy is confined to a military hospital, where he spends his time sitting naked in his room, not acknowleding anyone, moving and acting like a parakeet. His best friend Al (Nicolas Cage), also a wounded Vietnam vet ...
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Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him since childhood. Birdy is confined to a military hospital, where he spends his time sitting naked in his room, not acknowleding anyone, moving and acting like a parakeet. His best friend Al (Nicolas Cage), also a wounded Vietnam vet, visits Birdy every day, determined to bring him back to reality. Birdy is occasionally disjointed but enriched by strong performances from Modine and Cage and a number of hard-to-forget moments. Don Kaye, Rovi
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Jacob's Ladder meets Sandlot. Birdy is a very touching story of youth, aspiration, and the detritis of the Vietnam era. While superficial in ways, there is a great current of valid truths and difficult realizations about life in North America during the 60's and 70's.
Two urban Philadelphia boys, opposite in almost every way, experience a life-long friendship. Both having turbulent and unsopportive family lives, these two boys, played by Modine and Cage, fight to keep life interesting and easy. Matthew Modine's character is a strangely fascinated youth, constantly tending to his birds, gradually consumed with the actual, not symbolic, escape from existential difficulty via becoming a bird. As this reality takes over his cognizance, he follows after his best friend to the Vietnam war, after a bitter reality. Afterwards their paths meet again and they have to help each other out of the impossible once again.
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