Birth Movie Review 2004

Creepy psychological thriller finds widowed Anna (Kidman) finally making a commitment to marry Joseph (Huston) ten years after her husband Sean's death. That is until a strange 10-year-old, also named Sean (Bright), turns up insisting that Anna cannot remarry because he is her spouse. Sean is impervious to any suggestion otherwise and his very insistence comes to convince the emotionally fragile woman. None of this goes over well with Anna's imperious mother (Bacall) or the rest of her family, let alone her frustrated fiance. Various explanations are offered and director Glazer elegantly camouflages plot holes. Kidman, with her severe pixie haircut, somewhat resembles Mia Farrow in "Rosemary's Baby," but one thing you can be certain of is here, the devil didn't do it.

Distribution

Warner Home Video, Inc., 5775 Linder Canyon Rd., Westlake Village, CA 91362, URL: http://whv.warnerbros.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on DVD
Running time 100 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Psycho-Thriller, Reincarnation, Widows & Widowers, New York, New York

Screenplay

Milo Addica, Jonathan Glazer, Jean-Claude Carriere

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall, Arliss Howard, Alison Elliot, Anne Heche, Peter Stormare, Ted Levine, Cara Seymour, Zoe Caldwell, Milo Addica

Cinematography

Harris Savides

Director

Jonathan Glazer

Music

Alexandre Desplat

Other

Michael Barosky, Sam Snead, Claus Wehlisch, Jonathan Arkin, John Dunn, Kevin Thompson

Producer

Jean-Louis Piel, Nick Morris, Lizzie Gower, New Line Cinema