Birdy is a 1984 American drama film based on William Wharton 's 1978 novel of the same name. Directed by Alan Parker, it stars Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage. Set in 1960s …

Birdy: Directed by Alan Parker. With Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron. After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and …

The movie is about two friends from South Philadelphia. One of them, Al, played by Nicolas Cage, is a slick romeo with a lot of self-confidence and a way with the women. The other, nicknamed …

Aided by strong work from Matthew Modine and Nicolas Cage, Birdy finds director Alan Parker turning a supposedly unfilmable novel into a soaring -- and emotionally searing --...

Academy Award (r)-winner Nicolas Cage (Best Actor, 1995, Leaving Las Vegas) and Matthew Modine star inthis riveting drama about two childhood friends and the physical and mental …

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird. Philly boys Al and Birdy became friends in high school despite …

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Based on the novel by William Wharton, a young man returns home from Vietnam and begins to unravel in a newfound obsession with becoming a bird.

Birdy (Matthew Modine) is the weirdo kid in a working class Philadelphia neighborhood. Al Columbato (Nicolas Cage) becomes his friend. Birdy introduces Al to his love of pigeons. …

To escape an irrational world, Birdy (Modine), an ex- Vietnam veteran, sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army Hospital where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of...