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Birdy (1984)

★ 7.1 · 565 ratings on TMDB

A soaring experience unlike anything you've ever seen before.

Birdy poster★ 7.1

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?

DirectorAlan Parker
CastBruno Kirby, Dolores Sage, George Buck, John Harkins, Karen Young, Matthew Modine
GenresDrama, War
The emergence reading

Birdy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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