The Nines

The Nines stylized as The NIN9S is a 2007 science fantasy film written and directed by John August and starring Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy, and Elle Fanning. The film debuted at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, and made 63,165 in the U.S. box office through October 11, 2007.

Gary is a troubled actor who is wearing a green bracelet on his wrist, under house arrest living in another persons house because he burned down his own. The owner of the house is described as a TV writer away on work. While living in the house he is befriended by both a P.R. handler, Margaret, and the single mom next door, Sarah, who may or may not be interested in him romantically. Over the course of his house arrest, Gary becomes convinced that he is being haunted by the number nine, including finding a note saying Look for the nines in his handwriting. He encounters many occurrences of the number nine, while playing backgammon he rolls nines, while reading newspaper advertisements he becomes obsessed with finding nines. Asking Sarah about the numberworries her and she cryptically tells him I can get you out of here. He also sees different versions of himself around the house, which unsettles him, causing him to break out of his house arrest barrier, which in turn causes a blip in reality.A television writer, Gavin, trying to get his pilot produced. He leaves home to work on his TV show, Knowing, about a mother and daughter who are lost, which stars his friend Melissa as the lead actress. In a conversation about reviews and critics Susan, a television executive and producer of the show, tells Gavin to look for the nines which he then writes on a piece of paper, the same piece which Gary found in Part One. He also tells Melissa he thinks he is haunted by himself. During the process of post production, Susan pushes for Gavin to ditch his friend Melissa as the unconventional lead of his project in favor of a more attractive, wellknown actress. This causes an argument between him and Melissa. He then finds out that the wellknown actress was actually cast in another show which Susan knew of before suggesting her. Since she is now unavailable and Melissa wont answer Gavins calls, he confronts Susan about her knowing his show would never get picked up and about him

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