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The Nines

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2007 · 1h 40m · R Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by John August

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Overview

A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.

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65%
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Rotten

This overreaching, Lynch-lite comic drama is the mediocre directorial debut of screenwriter John August ('Charlie's Angels', 'Big Fish') and, if nothing else, demonstrates why some writers should stick to their laptops.

David Jenkins, Time Out
Rotten

The cosmic "resolution" that ties the stories together proves less interesting than the stories themselves.

Gene Seymour, Newsday
Rotten

The Nines, which in real life began as a TV project, wavers uncomfortably between satire and dime-store existentialism on the big screen.

Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Fresh

The dialogue snaps, crackles and pops. And confusing as they may be, the stories are never boring.

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
Fresh

Bright and vicious, desperate and cruel, the characters of the first two stories pop with a kind of nihilistic joie de vivre that makes you want to hug them and kill them at once.

Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times

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