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Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 as of 03/18/2010 17:45 EDT
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Miramax
EAN: 0717951010865
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: D20915D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 2002
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Product Description:
A thirtysomething bank clerk from st albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his russian mail-order bride. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Nicole Kidman Vincent Cassel Run time: 93 minutes Rating: R Director: Jez Butterworth
Amazon.com:
If Birthday Girl is a far-fetched thriller, it's also a slice of absurdist fun populated by some awfully interesting actors. Nicole Kidman plays Sophia, a chain-smoking, mascara-smudged, wildly sexual mail-order bride from Russia who answers an Internet plea for companionship from a lonely British bank employee, John (Ben Chaplin). For a while, the two make a startling and intriguing pair: she apparently speaks no English and he naively frets over the veracity of the Web business that brought them together. The gorgeous Kidman and sad-eyed Chaplin are briefly the engine of their own unique movie, but then the other shoe drops. Sophia, obviously up to something mysterious, is paid a visit on her birthday by two Russian "cousins" (French filmmaker Mathieu Kassovitz and one of his own frequent stars, Vincent Cassel, also seen in Brotherhood of the Wolf). Suddenly, John's quest for a lover becomes a web of deceit and corruption. Directed and cowritten (with his brother Tom) by Jez Butterworth, Birthday Girl is hampered a bit by sluggishness and insufficient character development. But it is also original and strikingly entertaining. Tom Keogh
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A horrible movie. I was expecting great things from Nicole Kidman. How could she make this movie.
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Thiis is another one of these modern-day British crime films that are a bit quirky . It's not wild like "Snatch" or "Sexy Beast" but it's interesting and it has some rough characters.
It also has a corny and somewhat predictable ending but early in the show - not late - has some neat twists to make it very interesting for the first-time viewer. Basically, it's about a low-key British male who sends away for a Russian "mail order bride" who winds up, with the aid of two Russian male ... Read More
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John Buckingham, a terminally dull, lonely bank employee (Ben Chaplin) finds a russian bride named Nadia (the sizzling Nicole Kidman) through a web site. Upon meeting, they discover that they don't speak each other's language. Not to worry! This odd couple find mutual understanding through, um... bondage! What starts out as a sweet / funny love story becomes a crime drama when Nadia's "cousin" and his friend (Vincent Cassel from Eastern Promises) arrive unanounced for her birthday. Kidman's Nadia ... Read More
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Ben Chaplin gives an underplayed and terrific performance as a regular guy in England who knows that everyone is not lucky enough to meet the love of their life by chance. To this end, he decides to help things along via the internet, sending for a Russian girl he hopes will be the one.
This Jez Butterworth directed film is full of surprises as it moves from a tentative romance to a crime thriller of sorts and back to romance again. It is all done so well that your interest never lags ... Read More
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This movie was really awkward throughout. I don't know what else to say about it as the premise is obvious. It's not really extremely thrilling, but more like I said an extremely awkward movie. No one got killed really but, you'll want to avert you're eyes often during this movie, at the awkward mail order relationship.
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Miramax
EAN: 0717951010865
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Miramax
Languages:
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: D20915D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 13, 2002
Running Time: 93 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: February 01, 2002