Project Detail

Birthday Girl

Name: Birthday Girl
Director: Jez Butterworth
Released: 2000

Synopsis

John Buckingham was an ordinary bank employee with a small home and a life built on routine - until he took a bride through a mail order service called 'From Russia with Love'.

The morning she arrives is her birthday, but he's the one who's in for the surprise.

She's more attractive than he expected. She has an insatiable appetite for sex. She only speaks one word of English: Yes. And almost nothing about her is what it appears to be.

No one can hold a candle to Nicole Kidman, the star of this sexy new thriller.

Details

Year: 2000
Type of project: Features
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Jez Butterworth
Producer: Paul Webster, Harvey Weinstein, Colin Leventhal
Editor: Chris Tellefsen
Screenwriter: Jez Butterworth, Tom Butterworth
Director of Photography: Oliver Stapleton
Sound: Garth Marshall
Principal cast: Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin, Vincent Cassell, Matthieu Kassovitz

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Miramax/HAL Films

Elsley House
24-30 Gt. Tichfield Street
London
W1P 7AD
UK

Sales Company

Miramax/HAL Films

Elsley House
24-30 Gt. Tichfield Street
London
W1P 7AD
UK

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