Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy

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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62% liked it

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67% liked it

58 critics

R, 1 hr. 42 min.

Directed by: John August

Release Date: August 31, 2007

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DVD Release Date: January 29, 2008

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  • February 4, 2009
    I admire the idea and creativity of this movie. However, this movie seems a little ambitious for what they were able to pull off. The film comes off as low budget and more tv quality than movie. The film is often confusing and doesn't make much sense until the end. Reynolds d...( read more)oes a solid job of acting and surprisingly shows some diversity. High scores for creativity, but I feel this could have been a lot better. This might be worth the watch if you are looking for something a little different from your normal movie.
  • December 17, 2008
    "Um, I'm kind of having a medical situation. I don't have a belly button."

    The director, John August, has worked together with one of my ultimate favourite directors, Tim Burton, so I thought that this could actually be interesting. Well, prepare yourself for a huge disappointme...( read more)nt.

    "The Nines" has basically an interesting idea with deep themes, but it just gets weirder and weirder. It's too surrealistic and fails in every imagined ways. In the end, it's just another preposterous movie that had potential but bombed. Big.
  • August 11, 2008
    This would have been better left in dreamland logic. I kept telling myself I wanted some kind of explanation, but when it came I was disappointed. Good movie though. Charlie Kaufman meets David Lynch.
  • June 26, 2008
    Odd but entertaining with Ryan Reynolds doing an excellent job of playing three roles that may or not may not be connected to each other.
    It's a rather convoluted plot that has a rather underwhelming resolution yet somehow it seems to work.
    At least it did for me.
  • June 25, 2008
    Reynolds exceeds the expectations. Weirdly beautiful in its akwardness.
  • November 21, 2009
    This movie annoyed me. Yeah I guess it made sense at the end (and I think there were probably some parts that intentionally didn't make sense that they threw in there just to be cute, or better yet, to ensure that other parts did make sense to us, which practice the movie itself,...( read more) either sincerely or tongue-in-cheek-ly complains about at one point), but the underlying concept falls under the heading of existentialist BS, and that doesn't fly in my book. I guess I can give them a few points for technical proficiency and extreme effort on the recurring motifs, but overall, this movie does not get a favorable rating from me.
  • November 19, 2009
    Dissapointment isn't a great enough term, to express the hieght and lenght of my lament, is. I choose "A Total let-Down, inside a promising storyline and conecpt, that never fully expresses itself."
  • November 12, 2009
    Very interesting and thought provoking movie, enjoy!
  • November 9, 2009
    Beh, che Ryan Reynolds fosse dio già lo sapevamo, quindi questo film poteva anche essere evitato.
  • November 8, 2009
    Very interesting movie. It was a combination of quirky, musical madness. I think someone may have been in a hurry when making this however. The ending was a bit campy and it lost me.

Critic Reviews


November 30, 2007
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

It is beguilingly cuckoo, though as primitive visually as The Twilight Zone - it was shot in 22 days - and about as profound. full review

August 31, 2007
Kurt Loder, MTV

This fascinating puzzle box of a movie is so clever it almost feels like a stunt - an attempt to keep so many balls in the air that you marvel at the filmmaker's technical facility. full review

August 30, 2007
Armond White, The New York Press

The sharpest, subtlest satire of a California stereotype since Evan Rachel Woods'... in the too-little-seen Pretty Persuasion. full review

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Comments


  • Shaqswife
    December 19, 2008
    Great movie! At the beginning you really do not know where the movie is headed but that was the fun part to me. I love the way it was brought all together at the end. I saw Ryan Reynolds from a different angle in this film. I had gotten used to the "Just Friends" Ryan Reynolds but this film made me truly appreciate his skill.
  • CaloAbreu
    June 10, 2008
    The best I've seen in a long time!! It is a great movie...it's just sad that most people hate it..but we have to understand that most of them do not have what it takes to get the right idea from the movie!! ;D It is GREAT!!
  • nbhatti3000
    February 20, 2008
    really i didn't understand the story of this movie i will have to watch 100 times then i might know the story of this movie.
  • MovieMad14
    December 2, 2007
    It looks intresting
  • johnemersonsfoot
    August 30, 2007
    I have to admit, I'm getting a bit annoyed at any halfway intelligent movie getting tossed into limited release. Here's hoping this actually makes it out into my neck of the woods sometime before the dvd.
  • MrsJensenAcklesx
    August 17, 2007
    This movie looks pure awesome the way john august made it look as if each guy played by ryan reynolds is seeing ghosts of them selfs itz awesome a realli can't wait to see it!!!!!!!!!!!!

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