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Happy Birthday to Me

Year:

1981

Duration:

USA:110 min

Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

IMDB rate:

Director:

J. Lee Thompson

Awards:

3 nominations

Details

Country: Canada

Release Date: 1981-05-15

Filming Locations: Concordia University, 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Montréal, Québec, Canada

Cast

Actor

Character

Glenn Ford

Happy Birthday to Me

Melissa Sue Anderson

Virginia Wainwright

Lawrence Dane

Hal Wainwright

Sharon Acker

Estelle Wainwright

Frances Hyland

Mrs. Patterson

Tracey E. Bregman

Ann Thomerson

Jack Blum

Alfred Morris

Matt Craven

Steve Maxwell

Lenore Zann

Maggie

David Eisner

Rudi

Lisa Langlois

Amelia

Michel-René Labelle

Etienne Vercures

Richard Rebiere

Greg Hellman

Lesleh Donaldson

Bernadette O'Hara

Earl Pennington

Lieutenant Tracy

Murray Westgate

Gatekeeper

Jérôme Tiberghien

Prof. Heregard

Maurice Podbrey

Dr. Feinblum

Vlasta Vrana

Bartender

Walter Massey

Conventioneer Leader

Griffith Brewer

Verger

Allan Katz

Ann's Date

Ron Lea

Amelia's Date

Terry Haig

Feinblum's Assistant

Karen Stephen

Ms. Calhoun

Louis Del Grande

Surgeon

Nicholas Kilbertus

Anesthetist (as Nick Kilbertus)

Damir Andrei

Junior Surgeon

Gina Dick

Waitress Ingrid

Stephanie Miller

Hospital Nurse

Stephen Mayoff

Police Officer (as Steven Mayoff)

Aram Barkev

Conventioneer

Alan Barnett

Conventioneer

Paul Board

Conventioneer

Marc DeGagne

Conventioneer

Bruce Gooding

Conventioneer

Victor Knight

Conventioneer

Rollie Nincheri

Conventioneer

Keith Sutherland

Conventioneer

Herbert Vool

Conventioneer

Len Watt

Conventioneer

Joe Wertheimer

Conventioneer

Nancy Allan

Cheerleader

Karen Hynes

Cheerleader

Tracy-Marie Langdon

Cheerleader

Debbie McGellin

Cheerleader

Kathy Reid

Cheerleader

Lori Timmons

Cheerleader

Debbie Tull

Cheerleader

Lynn Wilson

Cheerleader

Michael Santiago

Voice (uncredited)

Mark Zilbert

Crawford Student (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

For a short time, this was the highest ever grossing Canadian film until Bob Clark's Porky's (1982) came along the next year in 1982.

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No official soundtrack was ever manufactured for the movie.

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The film was submitted to the MPAA numerous times only to keep getting slapped with an X rating due to the gruesome murders. The following bits ultimately had to be trimmed for an R rating - Bernadette's throat gushing blood - A graphic image of Etienne mutilated by the dirt bike - More gruesome brain surgery shots - A bloodier impact of the bench press on Greg - A more violent bludgeoning of Dr. Faraday with the poker. The film finally got an R rating after these cuts. There are some rare prints circulating on the Internet that have the complete and uncut murder sequences.

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Goofs

After the guy wins the bike race, the glove on his left hand vanishes.

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When the investigator pulls up to the house to inform the Doc and Ginny about the discovery of Ann's empty car, a crew-members face is reflected in the small rear-view mirror as he gets out the car.

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When the car with Anne and her Mother in falls off the bridge, they show the fall repeated from several angles, in all but the last part of the scene before the car sinks, it hits the water on its roof, but when they show the car fall for the last time, and show it sinking, it hits the water the right way up.

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Quotes

Lieutenant Tracy: Dear God, what have you done?

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Estelle Wainwright: Why did you say that, Virginia - that your friends were here?

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Virginia Wainwright: God, you've got a lot of nerve.

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