Birthday Girl

Promblems with this movie: hard to understand Nicole's accent, they made this movie both comedy & drama...I think it would have been so much better if it was a full on drama with a fewer jokes & comedy, a lot of... Full review

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This is one of the worst Nicole Kidman works I have ever seen.I don't know why Nicole Kidman starred in this movie.... Full review

This movie made me sick and I cannot understand why you guys hate Russia so much and envision this country in such an awful way! I visited it twice and can assure you this film lacks truth in every single shot!... Full review

I love Nicole Kidman but I don't know what possesed her to do Birthday girl, it was garbage. I see Nicole has made better choices recently.... Full review

This is a good example a film that in spite of the low rating is more than worth watching. The story is engaging and it doesn't take long before the chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Ben Chaplin grabs your attention.... Full review

For a film that got little publicity, and few people have heard about, this was pretty good. It's another one of these modern-day British crime films that are quirky ("Snatch," "Sexy Beast," etc.). It's not wild like "Snatch" but it's... Full review

Nicole Kidman has acted in many good movies before, but after watching this film, I thought why she chose to act in this film?! The script is terrible, the story is plain dull and the characters portrayed are uninteresting. Don't rent... Full review

This film would have played better as a romantic comedy. Instead it was neither one thing nor another. All the performances were good, but somehow it missed the mark. More like a satire of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The plot... Full review

I had never even heard about "Birthday Girl" before i borrowed it on DVD from one of my friends. The cover said "Thriller" and i guess that was what i expected, especially considering the quite dark tone set by the... Full review

Curiously entertaining but ultimately unsatisfying, Birthday Girl is an odd little independent-style studio feature. We learn that Chaplin is as bland and boring in real life as his bank clerk character, and that Kidman had to hire her own Russian voice coach from the Russian diplomatic corps in Sydney. ... Full Review

Elevated by the performances of a top cast, Birthday Girl is a darkly comic, quirky love story cum thriller that never stops pulling rabbits out of hat. Fresh, energetic and darkly amusing, The Birthday Girl surprises, entertains and jolts us far from our everyday existence into a rocket ride of the heart. ... Full Review

This is an entertaining comedy with much to recommend it.....A fine addition to the stable of modern quirky British comedies.....The humour is understated and quirky, but more than capable of raising laughs.....Plenty of quirky humour.....The plot concept is great.... ... Full Review

Instead, Kidman comes off a little cold on camera in "sexy" movies when she is suppose to be inviting, and though she can be funny in for the most part she is a black hole at the center of the film where there should be a sexual gravitational pull. which would have harked back to her In Birthday Girl she plays Nadia, the Russian mail order bride of a lonely, staid British bank drone named John (Ben Chaplin). ... Full Review

In any case, "Birthday Girl" doesn't go quite so far toward being the complete entertainment "Sexy Beast" was, instead leaving us hanging onto an encouraging premise with hardly anywhere to go. Sexy Beast" is a prime example, and "Birthday Girl," also from 2001, is a member of the same club. ... Full Review

Nicole Kidman is set to both star in and produce a remake of Colombian horror feature "Al final del espectro" at Universal. List of big screen stints Nicole Kidman has to undergo seems to get longer day by day. ... Full Article

If the thought of Nicole Kidman as a mail-order bride isnt enough to get the juices flowing, then Ben Chaplins revelatory turn as the English suburbanite sucked into her honey trap should do the trick. ... Full Article

Long ignored by the box office, long overshadowed by her now-ex Tom Cruise, long passed over on the awards circuit, Nicole Kidman is now one of our bravest actresses, enjoying her best professional year with the one-two punch of "Moulin... ... Full Article

If you have a crush on Nicole Kidman, you might think Birthday Girl sounds like your kind of party. Kidman plays Nadia, a Russian woman purchased over the Internet by John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), a British schmo with a boring... ... Full Article

Nicole Kidman, fresh off the success of the sleeper hits Moulin Rouge and The Others, has signed on to star in this movie.She will portray a Russian mail-order bride who makes her matrimonial arrangements over the Internet. ... Full Article

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