Birth (2004)

R10/29/2004Drama, Mystery, Thriller1h 40m
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Careful what you wish for.

Overview

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Nicole Kidman

    Anna

  2. Cast 1

    Cameron Bright

    Young Sean

  3. Cast 1

    Danny Huston

    Joseph

  4. Cast 1

    Lauren Bacall

    Eleanor

  5. Cast 1

    Alison Elliott

    Laura

  6. Cast 1

    Arliss Howard

    Bob

  7. Michael Desautels

    Sean

  8. Cast 1

    Anne Heche

    Clara

  9. Cast 1

    Peter Stormare

    Clifford

You know I loved Sean so much, and its been so long that I still can't get him out of my system. I remember when it was released in 2004, there was a big hurrah about "the" bath scene, many vitriolic complaints about how slow it was, how not scary it was et al. Birth is many wonderful film making things, of course not all of those things will resonate or enthral many of the movie watching populace, yet there is such craft on both sides of the camera here, and an atmospherically ambiguous bloodline pulsing throughout, that marks it out as a particularly striking film. Plot finds Nicole Ki...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$20,000,000.00

Revenue $23,900,000.00

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