DVD. Run time: 120 mins. Language: English. 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 Rovi