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#6,297 All-time worldwide
#140 2001 releases

Movie profile

Birthday Girl

2001 · 93 min · Hal Films

Comedy Crime Thriller
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $16.2M
Budget $13.0M
Gross minus budget $3.2M
ROI 1.24x

Domestic gross

$6.5M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$9.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$1.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Birthday Girl ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #6,297 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 2001 releases #140 Release-year chart position of 250 titles Ranked against movies released in 2001. Studio / company #1 Hal Films of 2 titles Position inside the mapped Hal Films movie set. Primary genre #2,452 Comedy of 4,840 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Birthday Girl (2001) perform at the box office?

High confidence

Birthday Girl (2001) earned a reported $16.2M worldwide against a reported $13.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $3.2M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 1.24x. In this database it currently ranks #6,297 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #140 among 2001 releases.

Worldwide gross
$16,171,098
Budget
$13,000,000
Gross minus budget
$3,171,098
ROI
1.24x
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

John is a mild-mannered banker who has never been lucky in love. Fed up with waiting for the right girl to come along, John takes a chance on a Russian mail-order bride arranged via the Internet, where he is introduced to Nadia. John's fondness for Nadia grows... until the sudden arrival of Nadia's gregarious cousins makes John realize that he's in over his head.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Sep 6, 2001
Production
HAL Films, Film4 Productions
Countries
GB

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyHal Films Release year chart2001 box office Genre chartComedy Genre chartCrime Genre chartThriller

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Why this movie matters

Released in 2001, Birthday Girl is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy, Crime, Thriller title from HAL Films. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $16.2M, reported production budget is $13.0M, gross-minus-budget is $3.2M, ROI is 1.24x. For comparison, it currently sits #6,297 all-time in the current chart set and #140 among 2001 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.