Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Elpidia Carrillo | ... | Sandra | |
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Aomawa Baker | ... | Female Guard |
Miguel Sandoval | ... | Deputy Sheriff Ron | |
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Mary Pat Dowhy | ... | Nicole |
Andy Umberger | ... | Second Male Guard | |
K Callan | ... | Marisa | |
Chelsea Rendon | ... | Sandra's Daughter | |
Robin Wright | ... | Diana (as Robin Wright Penn) | |
Jason Isaacs | ... | Damian | |
Sydney Tamiia Poitier | ... | Vanessa | |
LisaGay Hamilton | ... | Holly | |
Holly Hunter | ... | Sonia | |
Stephen Dillane | ... | Martin | |
Daniel Edward Mora | ... | Receptionist | |
Molly Parker | ... | Lisa |
Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Those who like their movies big on Hollywood, hilarity, frenetic pacing and neato special effects, are bound to brand Nine Lives with the misogynist "CF" (for chick flick). Do not to listen to them. Rodrigo Garcia (scion of the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez) is a writer-director who is not afraid to make films that showcase his intellect and humanity -- however noncommercial those qualities may be. He is that rare Hollywood species: a male director who really digs and respects women without the taint of awe or condescension. In fact his films are not really about women, they are more universally about relationships. As the director himself explained after a recent showing of Nine Lives at the Virginia Film Festival, where he was accompanied by the very cool Sissy Spacek and Kathy Baker, as well as the two (female) producers (graduates of UVA's law and business schools); "the film is about relationships that have ended but will never be over." Go see Nine Lives, if only for the single takes -- an exceedingly difficult cinematic feat that beats any special effect.