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MOVIE · 2002

Birthday Girl

ComedyCrimeThriller93 min

Ben Chaplin’s John is a shy English bank clerk who gives up on waiting for romance and orders a Russian bride through an online service. Nicole Kidman is Nadia, glamorous and unreadable, arriving with little English and a presence that leaves John guessing at nearly everything. As he tries to make this unlikely domestic arrangement work, two men claiming to be Nadia’s cousins — Vincent Cassel and Mathieu Kassovitz — turn up at his door. What begins as an awkward fantasy of companionship starts sliding into deception and a robbery that John is badly unprepared for.

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