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DVD : The Nines (Special Edition)In association with Amazon.comstarring: Hope Davis, Ryan Reynolds, David Denman, Octavia L. Spencer, Melissa McCarthy directed by: John August  List Price: $19.94 Amazon.com's Price: $14.99 You Save: $4.95 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Sony EAN: 0043396227507 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Sony Pictures Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Sony Pictures Region Code: 99 Release Date: January 29, 2008 Running Time: 99 minutes Studio: Sony Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 2007 Sales Rank: 15375 MPN: COLD22750D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The Nines consists of three short films, each featuring the same actors in different — and sometimes overlapping — roles. Together, 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 the answer is the question: "How does it all add up?" "The Prisoner" tells the story of a troubled television star (Reynolds) who finds himself under house arrest, with his chipper publicist (McCarthy) and his disillusioned next-door neighbor (Davis) providing his only links to the outside world. Mysterious events lead him to question whether one or more of the women are deceiving him about the nature of his incarceration. "Reality Television" is a half-hour episode of "Behind the Screen," a Project Greenlight-style documentary series tracking the process of creating a network television drama. "Knowing" finds an acclaimed videogame designer (Reynolds) and his wife (McCarthy) facing car trouble deep in the woods. Their daughter (Elle Fanning) uncovers information which leads to a difficult and irrevocable choice. Amazon.com: Worlds collide in most unusual ways in The Nines, marking the feature directorial debut of John August, screenwriter of such offbeat wonders as Big Fish, Corpse Bride, and Titan A.E.. Ryan Reynolds plays Gary, a Hollywood television actor whose crack cocaine escapades land him under house arrest. A no-nonsense publicist (Melissa McCarthy) who specializes in rehabilitating bad-boy stars for public consumption keeps Gary in line until a sexy neighbor (Hope Davis) makes him wonder if his reality is truly all it seems to be. Indeed, once the question is asked, another world washes away the last one: this time Reynolds plays Gavin, a TV showrunner whose best friend (McCarthy) is dropped from his new series after a network executive (Davis) manipulates him. A watchful viewer of The Nines will begin to note that certain themes and bits of dialogue overlap the first two segments of the film, and that certain key lines (e.g., "You’re not a man") are laced with double meanings. A haunting resonance, a sense that everything is imbued with some unknown quality or secret, overtakes one’s deepest experience of the movie. That feeling only grows in the final third of the story, in which Reynolds becomes Gabriel, a doting husband and father who leaves his wife (McCarthy) and child (Elle Fanning) with their stalled family car while he fetches help. Along the way he meets a wary stranger (Davis), and nothing is the same again. Everything loops into everything else in August’s clever story, which taps into that profound sense of alienation and dislocation most of us feel at one time or another, and pushes it toward the realm of myth. Fans of Donnie Darko may well find The Nines equally intriguing. --Tom Keogh Average Rating:
 Rating: - Three in oneThree very talented actors play in three short films that tie into one complex story. The main male characters in all three movies are played by Ryan Reynolds who gives a very fine performance. The film gets viewer to observe the characters as they have an all powerful ability to change reality with their own craft. Actor creates and inhabits the personality traits of the person they are representing; writer uses his imagination and personal experiences to creat a believable story that ordinary ... Read More Rating:  - Uniqu9Not a bad movie. Not the greatest I have ever seen, but it was a good mystery. I think a little more detail at the end would have been nice, but other than that I give it a 3 out of five. I was impressed with the writing, the plot, and the ending. However I think if you didn't wait around until the end to tie it all together this might have proved to be a very confusing movie that left a lot of people not actually taking the time to finish it. Rating:  - Confusing!The Nines is in a lot of ways confusing. You don't really know where you stand at the end but it makes you think about who you are and what you are in ways you didn't think was possible. Rating:  - "Look for the exit..."Like most movies these days, this one starts with an interesting concept and then somewhere everything goes wrong. Rent this movie and then send me the 15 dollars you saved by not buying it. There is really nothing to this movie. There is no mystery or suspense. Everything is spelled out to you along the way in plain english. The only reason I gave it 2 stars is because the acting was good. Unfortunately that does not save this movie from disaster. You are welcome in advance. Rating: - DisappointedI rented this movie because I love Ryan Reynolds, but the movie was really disappointing. It was so complicated that I only watched it because of Ryan's good looks. I know it sounds superficial, but why do they have to make movies so damn complicated. I hated it. Browse for similar items by category:
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