Bird 1988  R, 161 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Clint Eastwood
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Samuel E. Wright, Keith David, Michael McGuire, James Handy, Sam Robards, Bill Cobbs, Arlen Dean Snyder, Damon Whitaker, Morgan Nagler, Penelope Windust, Glenn Wright, George Orrison
Clint Eastwood directed this classy, but bittersweet, musical about jazz saxophone superman Charlie "Bird" Parker's (Forest Whitaker) troubled personal and professional life, which ended in his untimely death from the chronic effects of drug abuse. The film won an Oscar for Best Sound Recording.
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Touch and Go 1986  R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Robert Mandel
Cast: Michael Keaton, Maria Conchita Alonso, Ajay Naidu, Maria Tucci, Max Wright, Lara Jill Miller, Ian Hendry, Michael Zelniker, Jere Burns, D.V. DeVincentis
Michael Keaton plays a hockey star who is stopped one night by a group of muggers. The "front" for the muggers happens to be an 11-year-old boy (Ajay Naidu). After fending off the attackers, Keaton takes the 11 year-old home to his mother (Maria Conchita Alonso) and romance blossoms with the mother.
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| 1. Bird (1988)
2. Touch and Go (1986)
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