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Birth

Birth

6,0 /10 (762 Votes)
2004 EN 100 min

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.

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Release date

29/10/2004

Votes

762

Popularity

3.4

Careful what you wish for.

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

100 min

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$23,900,000

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John Chard

John Chard

2015-03-20

⭐ 8

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…

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