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Directed by | J. Lee Thompson |
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Story by | John Saxton |
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Cinematography | Miklós Lente |
Edited by | Debra Karen |
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Distributed by | Columbia Pictures[2] |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $3.5 million[3] |
Box office | $10.6 million[4] |
Happy Birthday to Me is a 1981 slasher film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Melissa Sue Anderson and Glenn Ford. Its plot revolves around six brutal murders occurring around a popular high school senior's birthday.
A co-production between the United States and Canada, the film was shot in Montreal and upstate New York.
Happy Birthday to Me was distributed by Columbia Pictures, and released theatrically in North America on May 15, 1981. The film received mostly mixed reviews from critics.