Seeing as how it was my birthday this past weekend I thought this week's theme should be about films featuring characters that are enjoying or hating their own days of birth.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Amazing film that takes place during a family's matriarchs birthday party on a magnificent antebellum plantation estate.
Good Will Hunting - The end of the film in which the main characters birthday leads to a final decision about which direction to take in his life.
Boy A - A troubled boy is released from juvenile prison on his 18th birthday and forced to come to terms with the real world that he has been closed off from for so long.
The Boys in the Band - A group of men get together to celebrate their friends birthday and it turns into an all out war of words.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - The whole magical world is revealed to young Harry Potter on his birthday and a generation of kids wishing like hell that when their birthdays rolled around that a flying letter from Hogwarts would be flown into their living rooms by an owl.
Sixteen Candles - RIP John Hughes. The film that helped launch Molly Ringwald into our hearts and gave hope to every nerd praying to hook up with someone from the cool crowd.
Eye for an Eye - The film that made me paranoid about opening the door for strangers; a young girls birthday is disrupted by a demented Keifer Sutherland when he bursts in the door and does all kinds of horrible to her.
Harold and Maude - Probably one of the most depressingly heartwarming films about enjoying life and making birthday memorable.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape - Probably one of the most just plain depressing depictions of a birthday: a morbidly obese mother bound to a couch in front of the television eating cake and smoking cigarettes.
The Hours - Another film about how depressing birthdays are and how so many people feel like marking the day with suicide.
Cloverfield - A birthday celebration is interrupted by a giant monster. Nothing cool like that ever happens to me.
Old School - An example of probably one of the most amazing birthday parties thanks in large part to Snoop Dogg and Will Ferral.
Parenthood - Seeing this is a kid I always wished my dad would have been cool enough to dress up like a demented cowboy and run amuck for one of my birthdays.