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Released
2001 · FILM

Birthday Girl

A lonely banker orders a Russian mail‑order bride hoping for romance, but when her wild cousins crash his quiet home, he must fight to keep his new marriage—and his sanity—intact.

Be careful what you wish for.

Directed by
Runtime
93 min
ComedyCrimeThriller

Synopsis

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Frustrated with waiting for the right person to come along, he decides to take a chance by arranging a marriage through a Russian mail-order bride service he discovers online, where he meets Nadia. As his affection for Nadia deepens, his life takes an unexpected turn with the sudden arrival of Nadia's lively and boisterous cousins, forcing John to confront the reality that he may be in over his head.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Christopher TellefsenShot by Oliver StapletonScored by Stephen WarbeckDesigned by Hugo Luczyc Wyhowski

Box Office

2001 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$16.2M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$16.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Birthday Girl - Braut auf Bestellungde
  • Braut auf Bestellungde
  • Birthday Girlen
  • Nadiafr

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