
Gary, an actor who plays a cop on television, uses too much lighter fluid when he burns his ex-girlfriend's things, then he drinks and drives, uses crack, and crashes his car. He sobers up in jail and is placed under house arrest and the watchful eye of a publicist, the cheery and tough-minded Margaret. She moves him into the empty house of a writer who's away in Canada on a shoot. Gary meets Sarah, an attractive and seemingly-willing neighbor. His friendship with Margaret bl... (Full plot summary below)
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Gary, an actor who plays a cop on television, uses too much lighter fluid when he burns his ex-girlfriend's things, then he drinks and drives, uses crack, and crashes his car. He sobers up in jail and is placed under house arrest and the watchful eye of a publicist, the cheery and tough-minded Margaret. She moves him into the empty house of a writer who's away in Canada on a shoot. Gary meets Sarah, an attractive and seemingly-willing neighbor. His friendship with Margaret blooms and strange things happen: he finds notes he doesn't remember writing, he hears noises, and he seems to bump into himself in the kitchen. Two remaining chapters reveal what's going on.
Leave your thoughts about The Nines.
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasThe most interesting aspect is how things from one segment appear later in another and how he's able to pull everything together in the end. |
| Christian Science MonitorRobert KoehlerSo unspeakably bad is screenwriter John August's debut as director, so hilariously unaware is the film of its overweening pretensions that it's tempting to want to deem it a Hollywood writer's fever dream. |
| Reel.comPam GradyIt's that increasingly rare animal, a comedy that is engaging, funny, and smart. And since this is only August's first film, it bodes well for the future. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJohn August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era "Twilight Zone" of image and reality. |
| New York PressArmond WhiteThe sharpest, subtlest satire of a California stereotype since Evan Rachel Woods'... in the too-little-seen Pretty Persuasion. |
| New York Daily NewsJack MathewsIt's an intricate, at times incoherent, but often funny and consistently fascinating trio of stories with the same actors in different but related roles. |
| Entertainment InsidersJonathan W. HickmanThe Nines is a movie that aims to raise more questions than it answers. |
| ViewLondonMatthew TurnerAbsorbing, mind-bending and thoroughly engaging mystery thriller with a superb script and terrific performances from its three leads. |
| Times (UK)James ChristopherThe film puts a delightful spin on that profound and solipsistic idea that we are the godlike inventors, and moral arbitrators, of our own little worlds. A gem. |
| DVDTalk.comBrian OrndorfOverall, I responded to The Nines as a sly Cronenbergian chess game of the mind. As impenetrable as it becomes, it's easy to perceive that this is straight-from-the-heart work from August. |