Birthday Girl
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Features
• Anamorphic
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Widescreen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 01 February, 2002
DVD Release : 13 August, 2002 |
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Why that doesn't surprise me
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Ben Chaplin plays John, a lonely, socially inept bank teller who gets a mail-order bride, Nadia (Nicole Kidman), off the internet, even though one of his obviously compatible coworkers (Kate Evans) keeps flirting with him.
Nadia can't speak English. John is annoyed and calls the mail-order company wanting a refund, until Nadia communicates with him through the international language of heavy petting and bondage. They talk for quite a while. Still, this makes for difficult conversation at restaurants, so John purchases a Russian to English dictionary, hoping to surprise Nadia with a love letter written in Russian for her birthday.
Unfortunately, he's sidetracked by the arrival of Nadia's boisterous cousins Yuri (Mathieu Kassovitz) and Alexei (Vincent Cassel) who want to celebrate her birthday, too. There's an uneasy tension between John and the cousins that mounts with each scene until Alexei finally explodes at John after he suspects John has inferred something else about his job of smoking meats, when he literally just meant smoked meats.
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The next morning, the two cousins are holding Nadia hostage, with demands that John rob his bank. He's given two bulky guitar cases to fill up with cash. From this point, "The Birthday Girl" grows more and more implausible , starting as John waltzes through the bank, carrying the two cases while most of his supervisors are distracted in a stress-reducing "I'll break your fall" seminar (One person stands behind another coworker who falls backward, trusting to be caught).
Someone finally notices the empty safe, an alarm bell sounds and John's on the run, in his car with Alexei, Nadia, and Yuri. Alexei and Nadia start making out in the backseat and John realizes he's been duped. Turns out, Alexei is Nadia's boyfriend, and they've been running this scam with various desperate saps with big money connections all over Europe. Nadia isn't even her real name. They tie John up in a hotel, and John must figure out how to untie the knots, and get his life back on track. Will John and Nadia get back together? Does she really like him? Will the bad guys get caught? What do you think it takes to build a girl robot? How are your gardening skills? |
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