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9 - Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood, Shane Acker

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From visionary filmmakers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov and Academy Award-nominated director Shane Acker comes this visually stunning and original epic adventure. In the final days of humanity, a dedicated scientist gives the spark of life to nine of his creations. The world has turned into an unrecognisable landscape of machines and spare parts, but this group of nine finds that if they band together, their small community might just be able to change the course of history.

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Film adventure animation science fiction robot post-apocalypse battle doll human legacy war

Persons of interest

Christopher Plummer .... #1
Martin Landau .... #2
John C Reilly .... #5
Crispin Glover .... #6
Jennifer Connelly .... #7
Fred Tatasciore .... #8, Radio Announcer
Elijah Wood .... #9
Alan Oppenheimer .... The Scientist
Tom Kane .... Dictator
Helen Wilson .... Newscaster
Shane Acker .... Storywriter
Pamela Pettler .... Screenwriter
Shane Acker .... Director

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Theatrical report

Shane Acker has done very well to get this story onto film, not to mention onto the big screen. It's not because 9 is a bad film but because it's such an unusual film that it can't be put into one of your standard, marketable genres. Perhaps that's why it's being distributed in Australia by Madman: they're certainly into non-standard films. There's another reason for this being a "difficult" movie: it's as depressing as it is uplifting. Not only have we destroyed the biosphere, our leftover technology is now duking it out for control of the planet. Aren't we a lovely species.

There are a few convenient oddities in the technobabble but the story rolls along with a good moral base (why can't we all just get along?), making it a good film to show your children. You can't raise them solely on Disney movies: it's like feeding them nothing but fast food. A home-cooked meal is always better, even when the taste is kinda strange.

The adventure, animation movie 9 is directed by Shane Acker and stars Christopher Plummer, Jennifer Connelly, Elijah Wood.