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The Ninth Gate (1999) 6.7
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Metascore: 44/100
Reviews: 603 user | 172 critic | 30 from Metacritic.com A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones. Director:Roman Polanski |
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Cast
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Pablo & Pedro Ceniza /
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Willy Holt | ... |
Andrew Telfer
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Witkin
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Jacques Dacqmine | ... |
Old Man
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Joe Sheridan | ... |
Old Man's Son
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Rebecca Pauly | ... |
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Catherine Benguigui | ... |
Concierge
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Plot Synopsis
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In New York, the money-driven dealer Dean Corso is a rare-books expert and partner of Bernie, who owns a bookstore. He is contacted by the renowned collector of books about the devil Boris Balkan, who has just acquired the rare The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows from the collector Andrew Telfer, to verify whether his book is authentic or a forgery. Balkan explains that the book was written by the writer Aristide Torchia, in 1666, with Lucifer and he was burned at the stake with his entire work. There are only three exemplars of The Nine Gates and in accordance with the legend, its nine engravings form a riddle to conjure the devil. The skeptical Corso accepts the assignment and has to flight to Sintra, Portugal, and Paris, France, to contact the owners Victor Fargas and Baroness Kessler and find the genuine exemplar for Balkan. Meanwhile, he asks Bernie to hide the rare book. Before traveling to Europe, the widow Liana Telfer wants to retrieve the book and has sex with Corso, ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Release Date:
10 March 2000 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Die neun Pforten See more »Box Office
Budget:
$38,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£102,431 (UK) (2 June 2000)Gross:
SGD 90,000 (Singapore) (8 December 2000)Company Credits
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Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all?
Old Man's Son: They're of no use to father. Not anymore. Not since he's been this way. His library was his whole world. Now it's just a painful memory.
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The keypad combination to Boris Balkan's penthouse office and to his private library is "666". See more »Goofs
Inconsistency regarding the engravings that Corso claims to be genuine (signed LCF) and forged (signed AT). In an early scene he discovers the LCF signatures on 1) an engraving of an old man holding keys in his right hand and 2) a maze that has no exit. But in a later scene he says the genuine engravings show the keys in the left hand and that the maze has an open exit. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Dean Corso: It's an impressive collection. You have some very rare editions here. Are you sure you want to sell them all?
Old Man's Son: They're of no use to father. Not anymore. Not since he's been this way. His library was his whole world. Now it's just a painful memory.
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What makes this movie rather unique in this day-and-age is to see a horror- occult movie that has very little action. That may turn off a lot of modern-day viewers and critics but I thought it was refreshing.....as long as the story could still keep one's attention, which it did. It also did it with a pretty long movie: 133 minutes. I have played this movie several times for friends and no one has gotten bored.
The attraction is (1) decent acting; (2) some great sets; (3) an involving story; (4) interesting characters and (5) low profanity.
What keeps most viewers interested is simply wondering what is going to happen next in "Dean Corso's" (Johnny Depp) quest to figure out the hidden message. Without giving anything away, this is a classy, solid thriller.....and more importantly, fun to watch.