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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
Anyone who has any doubts, qualms or complaints about the amount of attention that has been lavished on Nicole Kidman lately should go on notice: She's back and she's better than ever in a slight -- very slight -- caper/romance that's been spiked with vodka. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
There is a curious problem with "Birthday Girl," hard to put your finger on: The movie is kind of sour. It wants to be funny and a little nasty, it wants to surprise us and then console us, but what it mostly does is make us restless. ...
Glenn Whipp
L.A. Daily News
"Birthday Girl" is a middling Miramax movie that has been collecting dust for a couple of years. The fact that it's being released now speaks less to the quality of the movie, which is iffy at best, than to the star power of its lead actress, Nicole Kidman, who's currently being promoted for Oscar consideration for both "Moulin Rouge" and "The Others." ...
David Elliott
San Diego Union-Tribune
The lines are clever, the plot a touch too slapdash for comfort (in 2002, lazy airport security seems silly -- especially as the British have always run a pretty tight air ship). A peekaboo scene at an airport hotel has some of the old Hitchcock suspense of crafty voyeurism. ...
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Birthday Girl
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(2002)
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Overview:
John (Ben Chaplin) is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a change on a Russian mail-order bride arraigned via the Internet. His love connection is the enigmatic Nadia (Nicole Kidman). When Nadia's Russian "cousins," Yuri and Alexei, turn up unexpectedly to celebrate her birthday, John's life is turned upside down as he learns the truth behind their relationship and is taken on the adventure of a lifetime.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassel, Mathieu Kassovitz and Kate Evans
Directed by:
Jez Butterworth
Written by:
Jez and Tom Butterworth
Cinematographer:
Oliver Stapleton
Composer:
Stephen Warbeck
Studio:
Miramax Films
Release Date:
Feb. 1, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(R) - for sexuality and language
Running Time:
93 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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