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details
Studio: Miramax Films
Release Date: Feb 1, 2002
Running Time: 90 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
John Buckingham was an ordinary bank employee with a small home and a life built on routine...until he took a bride through an on-line mail order service called "From Russia With Love." The morning she arrives is her birthday, but he's the one who's in for the surprise. When the new bride's two "cousins," Yuri and Alexei, arrive John's life is turned upside down as he learns the truth behind their relationship and is taken on the adventure of a lifetime--when they take her hostage and force John to rob his own bank.
cast + crew
Director
Nadia
John Buckingham
Alexei
Yuri
Clare
Bank Manager
Robert Moseley
Karen
Waitress
Concierge
Producer
Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
reviews
January 17, 2002
It's make-or-break time for Nicole Kidman. No longer one half of a Hollywood glamour couple - look, it's Tom and Nicole! - the newly emancipated Kidman is out there on her own. And as far as her career goes, she's kicking butt. After two divergent but dazzling performances in 2001 - a dying chanteuse in Moulin Rouge and a killer mama in The Others - Kidman starts off the new year playing a mail-order bride in Birthday Girl. Ouch! Angelina Jolie took a similar role in Original Sin, and she's…
The versatile Kidman finally gets down and dirty in a film. Not quite femme fatale (which she played so brilliantly in To Die For) but certainly no saint, the actress throws away the glamour and her usual ice-princess persona and gives us a grungy Russian girl caught in a delicate situation. On the one hand, she begins to care for the guy she is duping and on the other, she has a mean-spirited Russian boyfriend whom she thinks she loves and feels obligated to obey. Even though she does a fairly…
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