Nine Queens (Nueve reinas) (2001)
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92% of critics liked it
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93% of users liked it
(13,095 ratings)
Argentine filmmaker Fabian Bielinsky makes his directorial debut with this taut crime thriller about a stamp and con artists on the make. The film opens with low-rent hustler Juan (Gaston Pauls) trying to scam the workers in a convenience store when Marcos (Ricardo Darin) steps in to arrest him. In… More Argentine filmmaker Fabian Bielinsky makes his directorial debut with this taut crime thriller about a stamp and con artists on the make. The film opens with low-rent hustler Juan (Gaston Pauls) trying to scam the workers in a convenience store when Marcos (Ricardo Darin) steps in to arrest him. In truth, Marcos is veteran con himself and the two split the money after fleeing the scene. Soon after, Marcos asks Juan to be his partner in a series of small-time jobs. When one of the men gets a message from his sister, the two head to the tony hotel where she works. There they try to pull off a big con that was initially planned by an aging criminal too ill to do it. The swindle centers around a fantastically accurate forgery of a rare stamp called the Nine Queens. As the two doggedly try to set up the deal, mobsters and the like learn of the job and try to horn in. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Fabián Bielinsky
- Written By
- Fabián Bielinsky
- Genres
- Mystery & Suspense, Drama
R,
- In Theaters
- Apr 19, 2002 Wide
- Studio
- Sony Pictures Classics
Critic Reviews
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Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune
A slick and thoroughly enjoyable con-artist movie.
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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
One of the most clever, most enjoyable thrillers in years.
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Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
The laughs are dark, the puzzle steadily more engrossing and the surprises, just like Heist, are doozies, up to the finale.
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Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic
Driven by a plot that's so tightly wound, we cannot look away for wanting to know what will happen next and who is double-crossing whom.
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Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
If Nine Queens draws you on a journey that eventually leads up a garden path toward your own suckerhood, it's all the more pleasurable for having done so with such slick expertise.
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Cast
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Ricardo Darín
as Marcos
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Gastón Pauls
as Juan
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Leticia Brédice
as Valeria
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Tomás Fonzi
as Federico
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Ignasi Abadal
as Vidal Gandolfo
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Alejandro Awada
as Washington
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Antonio Ugo
as D'Agostino
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Oscar Nunez
as Sandler
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Celia Juarez
as Mrs. Sandler
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Elsa Berenguer
as Berta
- Pochi Ducasse
