Tags
2000s, Ben Chaplin, Birthday Girl, comedy, erotic, Jez Butterworth, mail order bride, Mathieu Kassovitz, Movies, Nicole Kidman, Russian, thriller, Vincent Cassel
Birthday Girl (Miramax, 2001)
Birthday Girl is a 2001 erotic comedy thriller film directed by Jez Butterworth. The plot focuses on English bank clerk John Buckingham (Ben Chaplin), who orders a Russian mail-order bride, Nadia (Nicole Kidman). It becomes clear upon her arrival that Nadia cannot speak English, and early into her stay, two mysterious men come to the house claiming to be her cousin (Mathieu Kassovitz) and cousin’s friend (Vincent Cassel). English and Russian are spoken interchangeably in the film. The film was a modest hit, made for $13 million and brought back just over $16 million.