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Daniel Day-Lewis
Marion Cotillard
Penélope Cruz
Nicole Kidman
Judi Dench
Kate Hudson

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Guido Contini, the world-famous film director, finds his personal and creative life in turmoil. As he struggles to come to terms, he must deal with each of the women in his life: wife, mother, mistress, muse, agent, confidante, journalist and a youthful indiscretion. -- Chris aka Tarkin

02/08/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

songs lacking much of a connection

A film of oddness all the way through. It basically is a director meeting different women or thinking about them with each one with a song to sing. The story poorly structured and connected very poorly and not a single character was really given much of a characterization. The songs are nothing special, and the look of the songs are pretty poor. Any meaning to the movie is really missing here or at least lost among the poorly done song and dance numbers. Everyone sings alright but there really is no story connecting the songs of any interest and the songs had to be a lot better than this.

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1/4 

01/03/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Succeeds some, but fails some too

Rob Marshall, director of the successful film version of the musical Chicago, tries to strike gold twice with his film adaptation of the musical Nine. Some things work, some things don't.

FIrst off, if you don't like musicals it's doubtful that you'll like Nine. It's not a happy story, though the film version isn't as dark as the stage version. It tells the story of Guido, a director desperately trying to find inspiration for his latest film but being haunted by the women of his past and present. As he did with Chicago, Marshall films the musical numbers as fantasies of the protagonist, and this is one area that's a little confusing. How could someone who's struggling to find inspiration and creativity imagine such extravagant and wonderful musical numbers? Though that is a gripe of mi...

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3/4 

01/02/2010 (0 of 0 found this helpful)

Day-Lewis Needs To Do At Least Nine More Movies

Nine is not really a great musical. The music is not all that good (except for a couple of outstanding ones). But, that doesn't mean that the movie is pretty damn good.

The acting is absolutely near perfect with Daniel Day-Lewis leading the way. He is an amazing actor and portrays Contini...like he is Contini. I remember his acceptance speech for There Will Be Blood. He looked like Contini then. What a stud.

The rest of the cast is great as well (surprisingly, considering Kate Hudson is in int, who I despise). Nicole Kidman even puts on a fine performance.

So why is this movie so good if it only relies on acting? The story is pretty good but to be honest, it is fairly anti climactic. But, the cinematography is outstanding (as expected from Rob Marshall) and the way that Lewis ...

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3.5/4