Ten years after the death of her beloved husband Sean, Anna (Nicole Kidman) is finally ready to emerge from the shadow of grief and begin a new chapter in her life. She has agreed to marry Joseph (Danny Huston), a good-humored, cultured man who has patiently courted her for three years. Anna's decision pleases her mother Eleanor (Lauren Bacall), an elegant and commanding woman. Then a young boy approaches Anna at a party, asking to speak to her privately. She indulges what appears to be a childish whim. He tells her that he is her dead husband Sean, and warns her not to marry Joseph. She is angry at first and has him removed from the party, but he continues to contact her. His knowledge of her dead husband's life forces Anna to begin to question whether or not he's telling the truth.

This movie has to be one of the most horrific horrible films ever made in the history of cinema. Is that a little harsh of a statement, sadly the answer is no the movie is really that bad. I mean there might have been promise somewhere in the story had it been done differently exploring life and death and the possibility of resurrection. But the movie does not take that route the movie seemed to be filmed by a pedophile dreaming if having sex with young boys. I mean the bathtub scene where the little boy of ten years of age climbs naked into a bath with Nicole Kidman thirty years his senior is disgusting and revolting. Then there is the kissing scene I mean the movie seemed to be trying to shock their audiences with such brutality of disgust. It does not work, they at no time made the audience believe that Kidman truly believed this was her dead husband or that she could accept this boy as Sean and somehow manage to love him despite his age. The movie was a revolting mess from two minute long scenes of panning in on Kidman’s face while playing operatic music, to scenes thrown in simply for shock value. The movie does not interest you nor compel you to want to keep on enduring his horrific onslaught.

What has become of Nicole Kidman as she nears the age of death for a Hollywood actress forty she seems to think she has to take daring and risky roles and they are ending up in train wrecks like Birth. Also for the life of me she looked like a heroin addict the entire movie; she has gotten so skinny that I think some Ethiopians would envy her. This is no way to try and continue her career as she gets older and it led to one of the worst movies ever made. I don’t know what the writers or producers were thinking but how they could not stand back from this atrocity and not yell out STOP what the hell crap are we making baffles me. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE FOR YOUR OWN SAKE.
0 stars out of 5