Birthday Girl (2002)

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Studio: Miramax Films
Rating: R
Release Date: Feb 1, 2002
Running Time: 90 mins.
Country Of Origin: United Kingdom
Country Of Origin: United States
director: Jez Butterworth
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.
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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… Continued
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In this dark comedy, a lonely British bank teller orders himself an online mail-order Russian bride--and ends up being taken on an adventure of a lifetime.

Story

John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin) is an ordinary bank employee who lives a modest life in his small home. He is also extremely lonely. Rather than finding a mate through the usual channels, he decides to order a Russian bride through an online service called ''From Russia With Love,'' specifying that the young woman speak English. Arriving… Continued

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John Buckingham
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Robert Moseley
Waitress
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