Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Theatrical Release: 10/14/2005(USA
Release Date: 02/14/2006
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 112 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Filmmaker
Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic
drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes (lasting between ten and 14 minutes),
Holly (
Lisa Gay Hamilton) has a brief moment of reverie while confronting the specters of her past in her old neighborhood.
Maggie (
Glenn Close) escorts her young daughter
Maria (
Dakota Fanning) to a cemetery as they visit the graves of their family members.
Ruth (
Sissy Spacek) is a married woman contemplating an affair while visiting
Henry (
Aidan Quinn) in his hotel room.
Diana (
Robin Wright Penn) unexpectedly runs into an old boyfriend,
Damian (
Jason Isaacs), while shopping for groceries.
Camilla (
Kathy Baker) is a hospital patient awaiting surgery for cancer.
Samantha (
Amanda Seyfried) is a teenage girl who helps look after her handicapped father
Larry (
Ian McShane).
Sandra (
Elpidia Carrillo) is a female prison inmate who is expecting a visit from her children.
Sonia (
Holly Hunter) lashes out at her boyfriend
Martin (
Stephen Dillane) when she finds out he's been cheating on her. And
Lorna (
Amy Brenneman) has an unexpectedly moving encounter with her ex-husband
Andrew (
William Fichtner) as she pays her respects to his second wife, who has just passed away.
Nine Lives premiered at the
2005 Sundance Film Festival.
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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