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Birth

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall View All

Crew

Jean-Claude Carri�re (Screenplay), Milo Addica (Screenplay), Jonathan Glazer (Screenplay), Jonathan Glazer (Director) View All

Release: Oct. 29th, 2004

Runtime: 1 hour, 40 minutes

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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Gideon58
The film stars Nicole Kidman as Anna, a sophisticated widow who is about get remarried to Joseph (Danny Huston) when a young boy (Cameron Bright) shows up at her engagement party and claims he is Sean, Anna's husband, who died 10 years ago after collapsing in Central Park while jogging.

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thracian dawg
In the last scene of the film, over the laughter and music of her wedding reception, Anna has clearly heard her dead husband calling to her from the ocean.