9 (2009)


Alan Oppenheimer        Scientist
Tom Kane                Dictator
Christopher Plummer     Voice of #1
Martin Landau           Voice of #2
John C. Reilly          Voice of #3
Crispin Glover          Voice of #6
Jennifer Connelly       Voice of #7
Fred Tatasciore (II)    Voice of #8
Elijah Wood             Voice of #9

Directed by:            Shane Acker
Produced by:            Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov, Jim Lemley

Runtime: 80 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy


Consensus:  Although its story is perhaps too familiar and less complex than some might wish, 9 is visually 
spectacular, and director Shane Acker's attention to detail succeeds in drawing viewers into the film's 
universe.

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The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world's 
machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely 
shut down. But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of 
small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to 
exist post-apocalypse. With their group so few, these "stitchpunk" creations must summon individual strengths 
well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines, one of which 
is a marauding mechanized beast.

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After an apocalyptic war between human and machines, the world is completely destroyed and without human life. 
The burlap doll 9 awakes without voice and finds a weird object in the middle of the debris that he brings with 
him. While walking through the ruins, 9 is attacked by a machine called Beast but he is saved by another doll 
called 2 that fixes his voice. 2 brings 9 to meet his hidden community, leaded by the coward 1. When 2 is captured 
by a machine, the newcomer 9 convinces the other dolls to go with him to rescue 2. However, 9 places the device 
that he found in a slot and activates a lethal machine called Brain. The burlap dolls are chased by Brain and 
despite the advices of 1 that they should hide, 9 organizes an attack to destroy Brain.

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When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone, and it is only 
by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the 
earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will 
do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want 
to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on 
them.