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Happy Birthday to Me is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by J. Lee Thompson released in USA on 15 may 1981 with Melissa Sue Anderson
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
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Add to a movie listHappy Birthday to Me is a 1981 American-Canadian slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. It was released on 15 May 1981, and has since become something of a cult classic among fans of the slasher genre, with its bizarre murder methods and twisted climactic revelation.
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Virginia "Ginny" Wainwright is a pretty and popular high school senior at Crawford Academy. She is one of her school's "Top Ten," an elite clique which comprises the richest, most popular and most snobbish teens at the Academy. The Top Ten meet every night at the Silent Woman Tavern, a pub near Crawford's campus.Actors
Melissa Sue Anderson
(Virginia Wainwright)
Glenn Ford
(Dr. David Faraday)
Sharon Acker
(Estelle Wainwright)
Lawrence Dane
(Hal Wainwright)
Frances Hyland
(Mrs. Patterson)
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