Nine Lives (2005)
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Elpidia Carrillo, Andrew Borba, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 14, 2006
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, French - Optional
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Reviews
Loss is the common thread that binds the women in these nine snapshots that involve us in their intricate lives. Some stories work beautifully, while others are dull and hardly capture our interest
The stories are sketches, often without resolution, and while individual segments succeed admirably, taken together the portraits are a fitful match.
In the end, all of the pieces in Nine Lives fit together perfectly. If one story doesn't quite resonate for you, the next one likely will in this small but beautiful film.
Kathy Baker deserves and Oscar nomination for juggling so many different feelings during her slow, reluctant acquiescence to the drugs that may likely save her life.
Nine Lives had me tense, engaged, sometimes disgusted, sometimes moved, and always interested. Garcia is an ingenious and eloquent storyteller.
It's as if we're randomly eavesdropping on the private concerns of one particular neighborhood ... a neighborhood that sure has its fair share of heartache.
Nine Lives isn't a master work, but it's still a fascinating piece of filmmaking.
You won't find ensemble acting much better or writing more incisive than that in Nine Lives ...
Certain characters and their particular pains become so engrossing in their 10-minute bits that it's sad to see them go.
What saves Nine Lives is a first-rate cast, which includes Oscar-winning actresses Sissy Spacek and Holly Hunter.
It's unclear why Garcia continues to choose to limit himself to these diluted portraits, rather than the layered and textured worlds that his writing and directing hint at.
Some parts are stronger than others, but as a fleshed-out artistic vision, Nine Lives works remarkably well.
If only every women's movie had Nine Lives' fire, intelligence, and conviction, they wouldn't have such a shaky reputation in the first place.
... the first third of the film is marred by a tendency to be morbidly serious and overly dramatic.
Just as we're growing fond of someone, the vignette ends and we're on to the next woman. It's nine orphan scenes desperately in need of movies to take them home.
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