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The Godfather meets Layer Cake, The Birthday Cake is a hard-hitting and gripping mob-drama with a murderous all-star cast including Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting), Val Kilmer (Top Gun), William Fichtner (Prison Break), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Emory Cohen (Brooklyn), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Penn Badgley (You), Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) and Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood). One fateful evening, Gio, the son of a murdered mobster and the nephew of Brooklyn mob boss Angelo (Kilmer), carries on the family tradition of bringing a cake his mother baked to his uncle’s house for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio’s life is forever changed as he begins to piece together what really happened to his father, and ultimately comes face to face with the type of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.

2021 · 1h 33m

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The Birthday Cake

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The Godfather meets Layer Cake, The Birthday Cake is a hard-hitting and gripping mob-drama with a murderous all-star cast including Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting), Val Kilmer (Top Gun), William Fichtner (Prison Break), Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas), Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos), Emory Cohen (Brooklyn), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Penn Badgley (You), Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) and Shiloh Fernandez (Red Riding Hood). One fateful evening, Gio, the son of a murdered mobster and the nephew of Brooklyn mob boss Angelo (Kilmer), carries on the family tradition of bringing a cake his mother baked to his uncle’s house for a celebration. Just two hours into the night, Gio’s life is forever changed as he begins to piece together what really happened to his father, and ultimately comes face to face with the type of violence he has been trying to avoid his whole life.

COMMON SENSE

Violent, predictable mob movie doesn't hit; nudity, cursing.

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.2
Reviews 22
Fresh 5
Rotten 17

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Studio
Screen Media
Released
2021
Run Time
1 hr 33 min
Rated
R Rated R for pervasive language, violence, some sexual references, nudity and drug use.
Content Advisories
Sexual Content, Language, Suggestive Dialogue, Violence
Region of Origin
United States
© 2020 The Birthday Cake Film LLC

Languages

Original Audio
English, French
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.