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  • 2007
  • R
  • Newmarket Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Newmarket Films
  • 1 h 40 m

Summary The Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different--and sometimes overlapping--roles. Together, the three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation. Alternately funny and unsettling, The Nines is like a riddle where ...

Directed By: John August

Written By: John August

  • 2007
  • R
  • Newmarket Films
  • 1 h 40 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • Newmarket Films
  • 1 h 40 m

The Nines

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
52
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Summary The Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different--and sometimes overlapping--roles. Together, the three stories form a single narrative that explores the relationships between author and character, actor and role, creator and creation. Alternately funny and unsettling, The Nines is like a riddle where ...

Directed By: John August

Written By: John August

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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25% Negative
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75
It's an intricate, at times incoherent, but often funny and consistently fascinating trio of stories with the same actors in different but related roles.
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
70
Rather than come across as fantastic or dreamlike, the stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality to them.
By Carina Chocano FULL REVIEW
63
The payoff fizzles, but the buildup is intriguing until it topples under its own weight.
By Maitland McDonagh FULL REVIEW
60
The Nines arcs from witty Hollywood insiderdom to a climactic metaphysical leap that may leave many viewers nonplussed. Nonetheless, there's more than enough intelligence, intrigue and performance dazzle to make this an adventuresome gizmo for grownups.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
50
Think of it as a kind of “Twilight Zone 2007” in which the paranoia endemic to an industry that runs on illusion, hype and extravagant grandiosity comes home to roost.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
38
Wavers uncomfortably between satire and dime-store existentialism on the big screen. It's sort of as if Charlie Kaufman rewrote "The Fountain."
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
30
It's hardly a novel idea, but at least when Kaufman, David Lynch, or Michel Gondry invites us on a tour of his chaotic subconscious, it's a fascinating place to visit. Plunging into August's gray matter is more like a season in vacation hell.
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19% Negative
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Production Company Destination Films, Jinks/Cohen Company
Release Date Aug 31, 2007
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating R
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Tagline Y9u never kn9w when y9ur number is up
Website http://www.lookforthenines.com/
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Awards

Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination

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