Directed by Greta Gerwig, Barbie is the highest-grossing film of 2023 as of now. The fantasy comedy clashed at the box office with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in July.
Released in the cinemas on July 21, Barbie became the highest-grossing film of 2023 earning $1.403 billion in its worldwide collections, becoming the second 2023 film to cross the coveted $1 billion mark this year after The Super Mario Bros. Movie. After close to two months since its release, the fantays comedy is now ready for streaming on Prime Video.
Barbie is available to rent on Prime Video as the streaming giant made the announcement on Tuesday, September 12 on its social media handles with the caption, “Did we hear you say hi barbie? Barbie now available on #PrimeVideoStore, rent now”. The film can be watched by paying an amount of Rs 499 on the OTT giant.
The Hollywood blockbuster is a story about Barbies in the Barbieland, one of which is a stereotypical Barbie, played by Margot Robbie. When her so-called perfect days suddenly crumble down, she starts experiencing an existential crisis and starts to think of death out of the blue. In order to comprehend herself and learn her actual purpose, she must journey to the human world. Ken, played by Ryan Gosling, her kinda-sorta lover, joins along for the voyage.
Directed by Greta Gerwig and written along with Noah Baumbach, Barbie clashed at the box office with Christopher Nolan-directed biopic thriller Oppenheimer, based on the life of the scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, essayed by the brilliant Cillian Murphy, responsible for making the atomc bomb used in the Second World War.
Barbenheimer became a cultural phenomenon as the films are polar opposites to each other in their themes, leading to comedic response from the social media users, including hilarious memes and fun mechandise. Variety, the US-based magazine called the simultanoues release of both films as “the movie event of the year”.
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