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Birth

  • 2004
  • R
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Nicole Kidman in Birth (2004)
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A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.

  • Director
    • Jonathan Glazer
  • Writers
    • Jean-Claude Carrière
    • Milo Addica
    • Jonathan Glazer
  • Stars
    • Nicole Kidman
    • Cameron Bright
    • Lauren Bacall
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    38K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    2,470
    636
    • Director
      • Jonathan Glazer
    • Writers
      • Jean-Claude Carrière
      • Milo Addica
      • Jonathan Glazer
    • Stars
      • Nicole Kidman
      • Cameron Bright
      • Lauren Bacall
    • 387User reviews
    • 176Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 18 nominations

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    Nicole Kidman
    Nicole Kidman
    • Anna
    Cameron Bright
    Cameron Bright
    • Young Sean
    Lauren Bacall
    Lauren Bacall
    • Eleanor
    Danny Huston
    Danny Huston
    • Joseph
    Alison Elliott
    Alison Elliott
    • Laura
    Arliss Howard
    Arliss Howard
    • Bob
    Michael Desautels
    • Sean
    Anne Heche
    Anne Heche
    • Clara
    Peter Stormare
    Peter Stormare
    • Clifford
    Ted Levine
    Ted Levine
    • Mr. Conte
    Cara Seymour
    Cara Seymour
    • Mrs. Conte
    Joe M. Chalmers
    • Sinclair
    Novella Nelson
    Novella Nelson
    • Lee
    Zoe Caldwell
    Zoe Caldwell
    • Mrs. Hill
    Charles Goff
    • Mr. Drummond
    Sheila Smith
    • Mrs. Drummond
    Milo Addica
    Milo Addica
    • Jimmy
    Mary Catherine Wright
    • Young Woman
    • Director
      • Jonathan Glazer
    • Writers
      • Jean-Claude Carrière
      • Milo Addica
      • Jonathan Glazer
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      One of Nicole Kidman's favorites among her filmography. She also believes it's one of the most overlooked and misunderstood films of her career, saying the controversies surrounding the bathtub scene eclipsed the themes of grief and vulnerability in the film.
    • Goofs
      Nicole Kidman's hair colour changes from reddish to blond several times.
    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Young Sean: I guess we'll meet in another life.

    • Connections
      Featured in Nicole Kidman: An American Cinematheque Tribute (2003)
    • Soundtracks
      Happy Birthday
      (1893)

      Written by Patty S. Hill & Mildred J. Hill (as Mildred Hill)

    User reviews387

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    Operatic
    There's a scene in this that will feature in film school classes for a long time to come.

    Nichole is an uneven actress, only sometimes rising to the world class of Kate and Cate and the old Julianne. The smallest part of this is the process of inhabiting a character, rare enough as it is.

    A film exists on several layers depending on its architecture. (I'm only talking here about films that live.) Almost never are the higher levels accessible to the actors in the project: few actors even know they exist. This film is a great example of an actress knowing and inhabiting those higher levels.

    What we have here is a director who spins a space of awareness around what we see. The story specifically addresses this and supports it. Into this space, the director and composer have poured a score. This score fits that space as being within the movie proper instead of being an annotation as the usual case.

    In this space, the score is something between the film and us the audience, the space where the waystations for reincarnation take place (at least in the story). Nichole acts to the score. It is a remarkable feat because as with green screen acting one has to anticipate what is to come into being later.

    The first scene introduces us to that space the score creates. It is a very long shot of the adult Sean running, dying and entering the fog of the score. The scene I mentioned above is later, when Nichole knows she is entering that space: she has literally just sat down to watch an opera... the music comes up from the movie/opera/limbo space we have already entered and it washes over her and changes her reality.

    This shot isn't just of a character, but of an actress, her character, and a dialog among them and us about the reality of this space, this layer of the film.

    Later, she is getting married and the music (this time by players on screen) draw many of the watchers in as well.

    There are lots of flaws in this; it isn't a lifealtering experience. But that one thing is a special experience, the idea that the filmmaker spins an extra space which Sean infers and Nichole, the composer and we inhabit.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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    • tedg
    • Jun 4, 2005

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 29, 2004 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
      • Germany
    • Official sites
      • Metropolitan Filmexport (France)
      • New Line Cinema
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 靈異緣未了
    • Filming locations
      • 1136 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Anna's apartment building exteriors)
    • Production companies
      • New Line Cinema
      • Fine Line Features
      • Lou Yi Inc.
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $20,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $5,095,038
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,282,000
      • Oct 31, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $23,925,492
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 40 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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