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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language, Profanity Movie Release: 1984 DVD Release: 02/15/2000 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English, Korean, Spanish, Thai SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hrs 0 mins Studio: Columbia TriStar Members Wishing: 11 Genres: Drama, Psychological Drama, Coming-of-Age

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, All Movie Guide

Matthew Modine - Birdy
Nicolas Cage - Al Columbato
John Harkins - Dr. Weiss
Sandy Baron - Mr. Columbato
Karen Young - Hannah Rourke
Delores Sage - Birdy's Mother
Bruno Kirby - Renaldi

Alan Parker's quirky, touching tale of shellshock and birds comes to DVD with two different images. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and is preferable to the full-frame standard 1.33:1 picture. A closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround, while a Portuguese soundtrack is mixed in Dolby Digital Mono. English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai subtitles are accessible. Supplemental features include the theatrical trailer, talent files, and the director's production notes. Though not to everybody's liking, this film's highlights, the performances and the photography, play quite well on the small screen. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide