Nine Review
“Nine” is based on a 1982 Tony award winning musical. The film is set in Rome in the 1960’s. This is a story about the life of world famous film director Guido Contini. The world awaits his next movie, which is his ninth, and is ready for production, and due to start shooting in days, However, there is a big problem, he doesn’t know what to write about, and has no ideas at all. He turns to the women in his life who have been an inspiration to him; his wife, mistress, leading actress, costume designer, and even his deceased mom. He gradually realizes that his stress and concerns are due to his unhappy and miserable life.
Rating: One out of five buckets
Release Date: September 9, 2010
MPAA Rating: PG13
Best Age Group: 18+
Sexual Content: Excessive
Violent Content: Moderate
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Excessive
Talking Points:
The actors are terrific, with a well-known cast such as Daniel Day Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Kate Hudson, Nicole Kidman and more. They all had wonderful Italian accents, and were very good dancers and singers.
The movie should have been rated R, not PG13. I could go on forever listing the reasons why, but I’ll just mention a few.
One scene had a nice message. Contini’s previous movies were all very sexual. When Contini is distressed and confused, he visits a local Catholic cardinal, the cardinal tells him that he’s writing about the wrong things, he say’s, “ You should encourage Italian women to be wives not whores.”
Sexual Content: Excessive
- In most of the musical numbers the women are wearing skimpy lingerie, showing a lot of cleavage.
- There were many sexual, provocative scenes with Contini and his mistress. In one scene Contini tells his mistress to leave the hotel room, and come back pretending she’s with a stranger. When she returns it’s implied they have sex.
- Another musical number shows Contini as a nine year old boy, with some of his friends. They give a prostitute money, and she starts seductively dancing in a skimpy outfit, while they’re watching.
Violent Content: Moderate
- The movie is also disturbing. His mistress attempts suicide. Another scene shows Contini, as a child, being whipped by a priest for his sinful actions.
Crude or Profane Language: Excessive
Drugs and Alcohol Content: Excessive
- Characters were drinking throughout the film.
I interviewed some teenagers after the movie. A 14 year old girl said, “What was that rated?” She and her friend thought it was boring and very inappropriate.
My 13 year old daughter didn’t like it at all!!!!! I was very uncomfortable in many of the scenes. My 20 year old niece liked the music, but thought the movie was okay.
Overall, it was a boring, inappropriate movie, with many seductive, uncomfortable scenes for a PG13 rating. I’ll give it one bucket, for the acting and a couple of good musical numbers.
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