The Birthday Cake (2021)

Directed by

Jimmy Giannopoulos

Genre

crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

R

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 63 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man brings a cake to a family gathering for his father's anniversary. He gets pulled into the criminal underworld of his Brooklyn neighborhood.

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What happens

The Birthday Cake is a 2021 American crime thriller film directed by Jimmy Giannopoulos, from a screenplay by Diomedes Raul Bermudez, Shiloh Fernandez and Giannopoulos. It is the feature directorial debut for Giannopoulos, who previously directed short films and worked with Miley Cyrus, A$AP Rocky, Kid Cudi, and others on music projects. This is the last movie Paul Sorvino starred in at the time of his death on July 25, 2022. The Birthday Cake was released in the United States on June 18, 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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