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A rag doll that awakens in a postapocalyptic future holds the key to humanity's salvation.

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Directed by

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Shane Acker ... (directed by)

Written by

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Pamela Pettler ... (screenplay by)
 
Shane Acker ... (story by)
 
Ben Gluck ... (head of story)

Produced by

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Timur Bekmambetov ... producer
Tim Burton ... producer
Lilian Eche ... associate producer
Dana Ginsburg ... producer
Jinko Gotoh ... co-producer
Jim Lemley ... producer
Marci Levine ... co-producer
Graham Moloy ... associate producer
Pierre Urbain ... associate producer

Music by

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Deborah Lurie

Cinematography by

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Kevin R. Adams ... director of photography: Starz Animation

Editing by

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Nick Kenway

Editorial Department

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Peter Armstrong ... digital intermediate producer: Deluxe Toronto
Gilad Carmel ... first assistant editor
Hal Cohen ... digital intermediate producer: EFilm
Rosie Galvin ... editorial coordinator (as Rosanna Server)
Adam Garner ... first assistant editor
Michael Hatzer ... digital intermediate colorist: Efilm
Lynn Hobson ... additional editor
Alan Kennedy ... editorial and post production supervisor
Mhairi Kerr ... assistant editor
Marc Lulkin ... assistant digital intermediate colorist: EFilm / digital color assist
Cam McLauchlin ... digital intermediate assistant: Deluxe Toronto
Harry Muller ... color timer
Dave Muscat ... digital intermediate editor
Harold Parker ... assistant editor
Robert E. Phillips ... digital intermediate assistant producer: EFILM
Lorraine Samuel ... post-production coordinator
Matvey Shatz ... post production consultant
William M. Steinberg ... first assistant editor (as Bill Steinberg)
Yon Van Kline ... assistant editor

Casting By

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Mindy Marin

Production Design by

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Richard Chen
Robert St. Pierre
Fred Warter

Art Direction by

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Kevin R. Adams
Christophe Vacher

Production Management

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Nadir Benhassaine ... assistant production manager: effects
Mary Bills ... assistant production manager
Solenn Colas Draia ... post-production manager (as Solenn Colas)
Chris DiGiovanni ... production manager (as Chris Digiovanni)
Gareth Elliott ... project manager: production
Barbara Foerster ... assistant production manager: layout
Stephen Gallop ... production finance manager
Allison Gardner ... assistant production manager: editorial and story
David Gerson ... executive in charge of production
Benjamin Gilberg ... production manager
Lisa Griffin ... assistant production manager: animation
Alexandra Gunter ... production manager (as Alex Gunter)
Gregor Hutchison ... post-production supervisor
Catherine A. Jones ... production manager
Alan Kennedy ... post-production supervisor
Tracy Lefler ... assistant production manager
Jason McKenzie ... assistant production manager: lighting and compositing
Ameake Owens ... production manager
Lisa M. Poole ... production manager (as Lisa Poole)
Darcy Reno ... project manager: animation
Susan Reichert Sullivan ... assistant production manager: sweatbox (as Susan Reichert)
Charlie Sweitzer ... story department manager
Matthew Teevan ... head of production: Starz
Ben Urquhart ... post production executive
Matthew Voynovich ... assistant production manager: modeling and rigging

Art Department

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Tohru Patrick Awa ... concept designer
Leopold Baranowska ... Concept artist: key frames (as Leo Sandberg)
Cal Brunker ... storyboard artist (as Callan Brunker)
Kevin Chen ... concept artist
Nathan Chew ... storyboard artist
Jung-Soo Choi ... prop artist
David Chow ... 3D set designer
Aaron Clark ... storyboard artist
Tom Derosier ... storyboard artist (as Tom De Rosier)
Aldina Dias ... property designer
Jeff Dickson ... storyboard artist
Julie Eberley ... designer/digital painter: Starz Animation Crew, Toronto Canada
Jun Falkenstein ... storyboard artist
Jim Feeley ... character ortho artist
Stephan Franck ... storyboard artist
Ben Gluck ... head of story
Alex Hillkurtz ... storyboard artist
George Hull ... visual development artist
Shih-Ting Hung ... production intern
Warren Leonhardt ... storyboard artist
Angelo Libutti ... storyboard artist
Pierre Lorenzi ... artist
Franck Louis-Marie ... 2-D set designer
Mark Nelson ... look development artist
Ryan O'Loughlin ... head of story
Troy Quane ... storyboard artist
Stephen Schirle ... painter
Michael Verano ... art coordinator
Shane Acker ... concept artist (uncredited)
Ricardo F. Delgado ... storyboard artist (uncredited)
Eric Hanson ... 3D set designer (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Marco Alicea ... digital transfers
James Austin ... engineering services
Jeremy Bowker ... assistant supervising sound editor
Tim Burby ... digital editorial services
John Countryman ... digital transfers
Luke Dunn Gielmuda ... sound effects editor (as Luke Dunn-Gielmuda)
Sean England ... foley mixer / foley recordist
Will Files ... re-recording mixer (as William Files) / sound designer (as William Files) / supervising sound editor (as William Files)
Pascal Garneau ... foley editor: supervising
Bill Higley ... adr recordist
Pete Horner ... sound effects editor
David Hunter ... digital editorial services (as Dave Hunter)
Mike Lane ... client services
Jessica Lemes da Silva ... foley recordist (as Jessica Lemes Da Silva)
Jeff Levy ... adr recordist
Steve Morris ... engineering services
Nathan Nance ... mix technician
Gordon Ng ... client services
Eva Porter ... client services
Jill Purdy ... supervising dialogue editor
Trent Richmond ... assistant dialogue editor
Frank Rinella ... foley mixer
Gary A. Rizzo ... re-recording mixer
Renee Russo ... post production sound accountant
Clint Smith ... recordist
Daniel Sperry ... dolby consultant
Dennie Thorpe ... foley artist
John Torrijos ... video services (as John 'J.T.' Torrijos)
Jana Vance ... foley artist
Jeremy Bowker ... sound effects editor (uncredited) / supervising sound assistant (uncredited)
Sean England ... adr recordist (uncredited)
Pascal Garneau ... sound effects editor (uncredited)
Steve Kohler ... recordist (uncredited)
David Peacock ... dialogue recordist (uncredited)
Ronald G. Roumas ... recordist (uncredited)
Carlos Sotolongo ... original dialogue mixer (uncredited)
Larry Winer ... original dialogue mixer (uncredited)

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Belma Abdicevic ... lead compositing artist / lead lighting artist
Ran Avigad ... technical director
Imran Awan ... lead final layout artist
Jeff Bell ... visual effects supervisor: Starz Animation
Nadir Benhassaine ... assistant visual effects production manager: effects animation
Daniel W. Bissell ... Rigging Artist
Herve Bizira ... technical director
Dean Blaser ... effects animator / visual effects artist
Mark Bodanis ... lighting technical director / technical supervisor
Alain Boutillier ... cg supervisor
Kenneth Brain ... visual effects research and development
Yiqun Chen ... effects animator / visual effects
Jeong Won Cho ... visual effects: surfacing artist
Brian Cooper ... additional lighting and compositing artist
Gregory Culp ... lead final layout artist
Robert Dale ... lighting and compositing artist
Luke De Souza ... lighting and compositing artist
James Deschenes ... lighting technical director
Paul Dobson ... lighting and compositing artist
Sean Eckols ... digital artist
Alexander Feigin ... effects animator / lead visual effects artist
Jos'h R.L. Fuller ... technical director: lighting and compositing (as Jos'H R.L. Fuller)
Simon Fung ... additional lighting & compositing lead
Heather Gagnier-Souliere ... surfacing lead (as Heather Gagnier)
Laurent Gapaillard ... digital artist
Aleksandr Gorokhov ... post production producer
Thierry Grizard ... supervisor
Ali Hamdan ... lighting technical director: Attitude studio
Jennifer Hendrich ... rigger
Julia Hong ... digital artist / surfacing artist
Daniel Hornick ... surfacing
Inna Itkin ... lighter & compositor
Avi Katz ... shot prep and finaling supervisor
Alan Kennedy ... post production supervisor: Starz Animation
Min Young Kim ... effects animator
Marie-Eve Kirkpatrick ... final layout artist (as Marie-Eve Tetrault)
Tibor Kovacs ... additional lighting and compositing artist
Keren Kurtz ... lighting and compositing artist
Tristan Laville ... camera & layout artist
Warren Lawtey ... effects supervisor
Kang Sub Lee ... lighting and compositing artist
Soh Yeon Lee ... compositor (as So Hyeon 'Soh' Lee) / lighting artist (as So Hyeon 'Soh' Lee)
Joe Levac ... render wrangler
Jing Jing Liu ... lighting and compositing
Pierre Lorenzi ... digital artist
Zachary V. Lowe ... surfacing lead
Juliana Machado ... effects animator / visual effects artist: Starz Animation
Norbert Maier ... digital artist
Benoit Maillochon ... digital artist
Hubert Maston ... CG supervisor / generalist td
Eric Mauhourat ... character rigger
Jason McKenzie ... assistant visual effects production manager: lighting and compositing
Iain McLuckie ... rigging supervisor
Bahador Mehrpouya ... effects animator / visual effects artist
James Minett ... lighting and compositing artist (as Jamie Minett)
David Mitrovic ... lighting and compositing artist
Sean Montgomery ... lighting and compositing lead
Daniel A. Murray ... lighting technical director
Mark Neysmith ... modeling supervisor
Edwin Ng ... character rigging supervisor / lead rigger
Markus Ng ... technical director
Ken Nielsen ... lighting lead
Irfa Nisar ... Rendering Lead
Patrick Pautler ... rigger
Zebulon Pike ... lighting and compositing artist
Christel Pougeoise ... character animator
Ryan Quaglia ... lighting and compositing artist
Jenny Riutta ... additional modeling
Jean-Brice Royer ... r&d engineer
Ruben I. Salazar ... digital compositor (as Ruben Salazar) / lighting artist (as Ruben Salazar)
Gourdal Sebastien ... digital artist
Ralph Sevazlian ... effects animator
Laurent Solignac ... lighting and compositing artist
Marc Souliere ... modeler
Ian Spriggs ... modeler
Anja Stitic ... lead lighter & compositor
Paul Stodolny ... lighting and compositing lead
Albert Tam ... technical director
Ben Tillmann ... lighting and compositing artist
Damian Upton ... senior systems administrator
Anna Wagner-Lopez ... lighting and compositing lead
Kyung Hoon Woo ... lighting and compositing artist (as Kyung Hoon 'Ian' Woo)
Andrew Woodhouse ... lead matte painter
Dan Wrightsell ... effects animator
Neil Yamamoto ... visual effects technical director
Boogab Youn ... lighting and compositing artist
Jun Yue ... senior surfacing artist (as Eugene Yue)
Tommy Zhu ... technical director
Bryan Luren ... lighting and compositing artist (uncredited)
Thomas Mathai ... data manager (uncredited)

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Sergio Gabrielli ... grip
Giles Keyte ... still photographer

Animation Department

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Drew Adams ... animator
Kevin Altieri ... story artist
Salem Arfaoui ... senior animator
Vanessa Arsen ... animator
David Baas ... animation department head
Robin Badr ... additional animator
Marc-André Baron ... animator
Adam Beck ... supervising animator
Brendan Beesley ... animator
Mary Bekiaris ... animator
Patrice Berube ... animator
Nev Bezaire ... animator
Charles Bonifacio ... supervising animator (as Charlie Bonifacio)
Gaëtan Brizzi ... story artist
Paul Brizzi ... story artist
Sebastien Bruneau ... animator
Regis Camargo ... story artist
Laurent Caneiro ... character animator: Attitude Studio Paris
Mike Chaffe ... animator
Aaron Clark ... story artist
Gerald Clevy ... lead animator (as Gérald Clévy)
Regina Conroy ... story artist
Romain Côte ... facial shapes modeler: Attitude studio
Mike Dharney ... animator
Ken Duncan ... supervising animator
Rob Elliott ... layout artist
Alexandre Espigares ... senior animator
Brian Foster ... layout artist
Rob Gennings ... animator
Carlo Giesa ... lead rigging td
Morgan Ginsberg ... supervising animator
Patrick Giusiano ... animator
Derek Gowland ... animator
Daryl Graham ... supervising animator
Cayle Hotchkiss ... animator (as Cayle Ward)
George Hull ... artist
Scott Johnston ... animator
Tom Judd ... animator
Jung Hun Kim ... character finaler
Aaron Kirby ... animator
Michael Kitchen ... animator (as Mike Kitchen)
Paul Kohut ... layout artist
Joe Ksander ... animation director
Kevin Labanowich ... animator
Alexander K. Lee ... animator
Justin Lewis ... animator
Jesse Lickman ... animator
Jean Lin ... animator
Jen Mackie ... rough layout artist (as Jennifer Mackie)
Stephane Mangin ... animator
Armen Melkonian ... layout artist
Ho Moon ... animator
Eric Murray ... layout artist
Guido Muzzarelli ... animator
Praveen Nadaraju ... animator
Ryan O'Loughlin ... head of story
Jeff Panko ... senior animator
Birgitta Pollanen ... layout artist
Evan Potkonjak ... final layout artist
Aurélien Predal ... animator
Darcy Reno ... project manager: technology
Alan Rogers ... animator
Fabrice Senia ... animator
Sue Hyunsook Shim ... animator
Rob Silvestri ... animator (as Robert Silvestri)
Kristin Solid ... supervising animator
Eric Stinnissen ... animator
Benjamin Su ... animator
Dave Sullivan ... software developer: Starz
Danny Testani ... animator
Oskar Urretabizkaia ... animator
Christophe Vacher ... art director: animation
Emmanuel Vergne ... lead animator
Archie Villaverde ... animator
Ed Wou ... animator
Boogab Youn ... lighter/compositor
Sébastien Ebzant ... animator (uncredited)
Samy Fecih ... animator: Attitude Studio Lux (uncredited)
Loïc Miermont ... animator (uncredited)
Jane Wu ... storyboard artist (uncredited)

Casting Department

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Terri Douglas ... additional voice casting
Kara Lipson ... casting associate
Russell Scott ... casting associate

Location Management

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Ambroise Gayet ... location manager

Music Department

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Bill Abbott ... additional music editor
Dallas Aimer ... additional orchestrator
Carlos José Alvarez ... additional music arranger / score coordinator
Chris Barrett ... score recordist
Christine Bergren ... music legal and clearance
Mark Berrow ... musician: violin
Thomas Bowes ... orchestra leader
Minjee Chung ... music preparation
Andrew Crowley ... musician: trumpet
Danny Elfman ... composer: music themes
Gavin Greenaway ... conductor
Benoit Grey ... additional orchestrator
Isobel Griffiths ... orchestra contractor
Todd Haberman ... additional musical score arrangements
Philip Klein ... additional orchestrator
Penka Kouneva ... lead orchestrator
Joanna Forbes L'Estrange ... singer (as Joanna Forbes)
JJ Lee ... orchestrator
Matt Lewkowicz ... additional arrangements (as Matthew Lewkowicz)
T.J. Lindgren ... additional musical score arrangements
Gerard K. Marino ... additional music arranger (as Gerard Marino)
Charlotte Matthews ... assistant orchestra contractor
Callum McIntosh ... singer
Jenny O'Grady ... choirmaster
Shie Rozow ... music editor
Casey Stone ... music scoring mixer
Junko Tamura ... copyist
Thanh Tran ... music librarian / music preparation
Lawrence Wallington ... singer
Warren Zielinski ... musician: violin
Steve Mair ... musician: double bass (uncredited)
Allen Walley ... musician: double bass (uncredited)
Bruce White ... musician: viola (uncredited)

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Anna Alekseeva ... legal adviser: promotion campaign in Russia
Michael Barrick ... executive assistant
Tod Raymond Baudais ... CG Software Supervisor
Armelle Berck ... assistant: Mr. Acker
Musa Brooker ... production intern
Jessica M. Broughton ... story coordinator
Michael Brown ... production assistant
Michael J.T. Brown ... assistant: Mr. Acker
Rob Burton ... head of technology
Jennifer M. Byrne ... assistant production accountant
Lih Chang ... technical director
Simon Chang ... senior systems administrator
May Chiu ... production coordinator
Matt Collie ... technical director
Terry Dale ... head of operations: Starz
Sofie Dejus ... assistant to producer
Gareth Elliott ... project manager: production staff
Lex Emanuel ... production accountant
Ekaterina Ermakova ... legal advisor: promotion video team
D.R. Farquharson ... project manager: Deluxe Digital Cinema
Luigi Ferraro ... Italian dubbing: #5
Derek Frey ... assistant: Mr. Burton
Joshua Lou Friedman ... production assistant: pre-production
Stephen Gallop ... production finance manager: Starz
Sara Geimer ... story production assistant
Jeff Goessinger ... post production assistant
Sergei Gratchev ... legal advisor: promotion video team
Nathaniel Greenberg ... production assistant
Adam Iscove ... assistant: Mr. Acker
Patricia Kavanaugh ... production intern
Heather Kenyon ... head of project development for Starz
Buzz Koenig ... production executive
Yuriy Korchuganov ... legal advisor: promotion video team
Lance LeFort ... senior recruitment manager
Daisy Yu Chuan Lin ... production intern (as Daisy Yu-Chuan Lin)
Michelle Lopes ... production intern
Joel MacDonald ... production coordinator (as Joel Macdonald)
Joe Majer ... programmer
Paula P. Manzanedo ... completion guarantor: Film Finances, Inc. (as Paula Manzanedo-Schmit)
Sean McAlear ... production assistant (as Sean McAlear)
Bridget McManus ... assistant: Mr. Lemley
Carlos Mena ... production assistant
Jessica Meunier ... production coordinator
Marie Michel ... story production assistant (as Kristen Blevins)
Josh Morgan ... technical coordinator (as Joshua J. Morgan)
Geneva Peschka ... department coordinator
Vincent Philbert ... production team: Attitude Studio
Zebulon Pike ... technical coordinator
Matthew Plouffe ... studio executive
Emily Rice ... production accountant
Kim Seto ... executive assistant
Ranjan Singh ... marketing head for India at pvr pictures
Daniel St. Pierre ... production consultant (as Dan St. Pierre)
David J. Steinberg ... head of studio: Starz Animation (as David Steinberg)
Kathleen Switzer ... assistant: Mr. Bekmambetov (as Kathy Switzer)
Matthew Teevan ... head of production: Starz Animation
Ben Urquhart ... post production executive
Dahlia Wilde ... researcher
Phillip Williams ... recruiting
Jeff Young ... head of finance: Starz Animation
Glen Yu ... systems administrator
Dave Bennett ... completion bond representative (uncredited)
John Hamilton ... Publicity Coordinator: Universal Studios Home Entertainment (uncredited)

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Storyline

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Plot Summary

In a world destroyed in a war between man and machine, a hand-stitched doll with the number 9 written on its back comes to life. The world he has awakened in is frightening, but he quickly learns that he is not alone and that there are others like him, also with a single digit written on their back. The first one he encounters is 2 who tells him something of what happened to the world. 2 is also thrilled with the disk 9 is carrying, one with three unique symbols on the front. 9 soon learns that the disk and some of the other dolls who are prepared to die for the good of humankind may be the last hope for man's salvation. Written by garykmcd

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Taglines (1) To Protect Us... See more »
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Also Known As
  • Nueve (United States, Spanish title)
  • Numéro 9 (Canada, French title)
  • Девять (Russia)
  • Numéro 9 (France)
  • #9 (Germany)
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  • 79 min
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Box Office

Budget $30,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend United States $10,740,446, 13 Sep 2009
Cumulative Worldwide Gross $48,428,063, 14 Feb 2013

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Trivia Shane Acker first made 9 (2009) as a ten minute short film while he was still at UCLA. It was nominated for Best Animated Short at the Oscars, and although it didn't win, Acker was offered the chance to expand it into a feature film. It follows the same basic plot, but more characters have been added, they have the ability to talk now, and the reason for the world's destruction is explained in more detail. See more »
Goofs Once 2 places the voice box into 9, the zipper remains open. However, in the next shot, 9's zipper is closed. The following shot has the zipper open again. 9 is later shown zipping his zipper closed. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Elijah Wood/Mila Kunis/Cheap Trick (2009). See more »
Soundtracks Over the Rainbow See more »
Crazy Credits Some of the end credits emerge from 9's talisman. See more »
Quotes [first lines]
Scientist: We had such potential. Such promise. But we squandered our gifts, our intelligence. Our blind pursuit of technology only sped us quicker to our doom. Our world is ending. But life must go on.
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