BIRTHDAY GIRL (2001)

John (Ben Chaplin) is an insecure man in his early 30s who never had any luck with women or love.  As a result, he surfs the internet for a future woman he can fall in love with and he eventually finds Nadja (Nicole Kidman), a Russian mail-order bride.  On the way home from the airport he figures out that she does not speak any English at all, which leads him to attempt to get rid of her.  However, she seduces him and tries her best at being a 'good' house wife and eventually he falls for her and buys her a Russian-English dictionary.  One day she announces that it is her birthday and a her cousin arrives unexpectedly with a friend.  Uncomfortably he tries to get to know them, but it does not work out as he expects.  Birthday Girl is a humorous love story with a surprising element of deception that will keep the audience engaged with the film.

DIRECTED BY

Jez Butterworth

COUNTRY

UK

REVIEWED
BY KIM ANEHALL – 1/19/2003
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