1990 · comedy · romance · adventure
Bird on a Wire
Directed by John Badham1h 50m1990
An FBI informant has kept his new identity secret for 15 years. Now an old flame has recognised him, and the bad guys are back for revenge.
Our read: Bird on a Wire (1990) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · romance · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- tender
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