Birdy
A soaring experience unlike anything you've ever seen before.
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?
- Director
- Alan Parker
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Action
- Worldwide
- $1M
Who's in it
Cast
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Movie DNA
How Birdy actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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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?
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Birdy returned 0.1× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $12M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $1M
- Release date
- Dec 14, 1984
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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