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Birthday Girl
2001
· Movie
· 93 min
D
MEANRANK
55/100
Every rating
39–65
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 39, highest is Metacritic users on 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →John 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 chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.
Details
- Director
- Jez Butterworth
- Writers
- Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth
- Studio
- HAL Films, Film4 Productions
- Released
- 6 September 2001
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $13.0M
- Box office
- $16.2M
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