Nine (2009)

Director:

Rob Marshall

Writers:

Michael Tolkin (screenplay) and
Anthony Minghella (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

25 December 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Musical | Romance

Plot:

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother. |

Plot Keywords:

Male Female Relationship | Singer | Rome Italy | Italian | Dancing

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis	...	Guido Contini
Marion Cotillard	...	Luisa Contini
Nicole Kidman	...	Claudia
Penélope Cruz	...	Carla
Judi Dench	...	Lilli
Sophia Loren	...	Mamma
Stacy Ferguson	...	Saraghina (as Fergie)
Kate Hudson	...	Stephanie
Ricky Tognazzi	...	Dante
Giuseppe Cederna	...	Fausto
Elio Germano	...	Pierpaolo
Andrea Di Stefano	...	Benito
Roberto Nobile	...	Jaconelli
Romina Carancini	...	Production Assistant
Alessandro Denipotti	...	Production Assistant
Alessandro Fiore	...	Production Assistant
Erica Gohdes	...	Production Assistant
Gianluca Frezzato	...	Production Assistant
Paola Zaccari	...	Production Assistant
Roberta Mastromichele	...	Roberta
Francesco De Vito	...	Radio Reporter
Francesca Fanti	...	Dinardo
Enzo Cilenti	...	Leopardi
Enzo Squillino Jr.	...	Reporter 1
Michael Peluso	...	Reporter 2
Jonathan Del Vecchio	...	Reporter 3
Jake Canuso	...	Reporter 4
Eliot Giuralarocca	...	Reporter 5
Tommaso Colognese	...	Reporter 6
Jennifer Iacono	...	Reporter 7
Vicky Lambert	...	Reporter 8
Lavinia Savignoni	...	Reporter 9
Valerio Mastandrea	...	De Rossi
Damiano Bisozzi	...	Bellman
Marcello Magni	...	Doctor
Anna Maria Everett	...	Nurse
Remo Remotti	...	Cardinal
Michele Alhaique	...	Don Mario
Martina Stella	...	Donatella
Mark Bousie	...	'Foilies' Pianist
Giuseppe Spitaleri	...	Young Guido
Pietro Lais	...	Boy on the Beach
Samuele Minotti	...	Boy on the Beach
Francesco Manuel Pappalardo	...	Boy on the Beach
Pietro Revelli	...	Boy on the Beach
Gianluigi Tosti Di Valminuta	...	Boy on the Beach
Massimliano Belsito	...	Priest on the Beach
Roberto Sbraccia	...	Priest on the Beach
Mario Vernazza	...	Principal
Marco Liotti	...	Male Band Singer
Monica Scattini	...	Pensione Matron
Roberto Citran	...	Doctor Rondi
Georgina Leonidas	...	Matron's Daughter
Vincent Riotta	...	Luigi
Shannon Belcastro	...	Film Crew
Jean Martin	...	Film Crew
Joey Pizzi	...	Film Crew
Kerry Warn	...	Film Crew
Eleonora Scopelliti	...	Screen Test Actress 1
Ilaria Cavola	...	Screen Test Actress 2
Alessia Piovan	...	Alessia
Giovanni Luca Izzo	...	Man with Luisa
Simone Cappotto	...	Simone
Giacomo Valdameri	...	Actor
Anna Safroncik	...	Actress
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
James Currie	...	Journalist

Directed by
Rob Marshall

Writing credits
Michael Tolkin		(screenplay) and
Anthony Minghella		(screenplay)
Arthur Kopit		(Broadway musical "Nine") and
Maury Yeston		(Broadway musical "Nine")
Mario Fratti		(Broadway musical "Nine" Italian original)

Produced by
Kelly Carmichael	....	executive producer
Michael Cole	....	production executive
John DeLuca	....	producer
Michael Dreyer	....	executive producer
Gina Gardini	....	executive producer: Italy
Jodi Hurwitz	....	associate producer
Ryan Kavanaugh	....	executive producer
Arthur Kopit	....	executive producer (as Arthur L. Kopit)
Rob Marshall	....	producer
Marc Platt	....	producer
Steven Squillante	....	supervising producer
Tucker Tooley	....	executive producer
Bob Weinstein	....	executive producer
Harvey Weinstein	....	producer
Maury Yeston	....	executive producer
Michael Zimmer	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Maury Yeston

Cinematography by
Dion Beebe

Film Editing by
Claire Simpson
Wyatt Smith

Casting by
Kate Dowd
Francine Maisler
Razzauti Teresa

Production Design by
John Myhre

Art Direction by
Peter Findley
Phil Harvey
Simon Lamont		(supervising art director)

Set Decoration by
Gordon Sim

Costume Design by
Colleen Atwood

Makeup Department
Catherine Davies	....	hairdresser
Tamsin Dorling	....	hair stylist
Tamsin Dorling	....	makeup artist
Mandy Gold	....	crowd makeup supervisor
Peter King	....	hair designer
Peter King	....	makeup designer
Donald McInnes	....	hair dailies
Claire Pawsey	....	daily hair stylist
Marco Perna	....	daily hair stylist
Paula Price	....	make artist hair stylist
Nikita Rae	....	makeup artist
Luca Saccuman	....	hair stylist: Daniel Day-Lewis
Luca Vannella	....	additional hair stylist
Kerry Warn	....	hair designer: Ms. Kidman
Rupert Simon	....	hairdresser (uncredited)

Production Management
Gary Birmingham	....	production supervisor
Tania Blunden	....	post-production supervisor
Federico Foti	....	line producer: Italy
Kelly Helstrom	....	production supervisor
Leslie Jacobowitz	....	post production supervisor: New York
Marco Olivieri	....	unit manager: Italy
Tim Porter	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vicki Allen	....	assistant director
Filippo Fassetta	....	first assistant director: Italy
Heidi Gower	....	third assistant director
Martin Harrison	....	first assistant director
Luca Padrini	....	third assistant director: Italy
Chris Stoaling	....	second assistant director
Charlie Waller	....	second second assistant director

Art Department
Jo Berglund	....	set decoration assistant
Steve Bohan	....	construction manager
Alex Boswell	....	dressing props
Anna Bregman	....	draughtsman
Neal Callow	....	stand-by art director
Tamsin Clarke	....	prop buyer
Dean Coldham	....	supervising plasterer
Rory J. Collins	....	art department assistant
Leonardo Cruciano	....	sculptor
Giancarlo Di Fusco	....	painter
Paul Duff	....	lead carpenter
Matthew Foster	....	stand-by props
Antonio Fraulo	....	on-set dresser
Lavinia Glynn-Jones	....	art department coordinator
Bruce Gordon	....	head sculptor
Gavin Gordon	....	carpenter
Catherine Haugh	....	construction coordinator
Bernie Hearn	....	chargehand stand-by prop
Glauco Isidori	....	stand-by painter: Italy
Matthew Kerly	....	art department assistant
Martin Kingsley	....	assistant property master
Stefano Morbidelli	....	dressing props: italy
Antonio Murer	....	assistant props
Sebastiano Murer	....	dressing props: italy
Neil Murrum	....	chargehand dressing props
Sophie Newman	....	assistant set decorator
Massimiliano Paonessa	....	set dresser
Josh Polley	....	trainee propman
Heather Pollington	....	graphic artist
Alessandra Querzola	....	assistant set decorator
Carla Rennie-Nash	....	art department assistant
Domenico Reordino	....	head painter
Rich Romig	....	set designer
Chris Seddon	....	drapes master
Alex Smith	....	draughtsman
Eric Strange	....	prop storeman
Ty Teiger	....	property master
Lisa Vasconcellos	....	assistant art director
Julian Walker	....	decor and lettering artist
Clive Ward	....	chargehand painter
Peter Watson	....	chargehand dressing props
David Weller	....	on-set rigger
Laurence Wells	....	dressing props
William Wells	....	dressing props
Sarah Whittle	....	assistant set decorator
Jack Wilkinson	....	junior draughtsman
Stefania Monetti	....	construction coordinator: Italy (uncredited)

Sound Department
Brian Calhoon	....	adr recordist
Andrew Caller	....	sound mix technician
James Corless	....	sound mix technician
Lloyd Dudley	....	sound assistant
Robert Fernandez	....	sound re-recording mixer
Richard Fordham	....	foley editor
Antongiulio Frulio	....	midi programming
Jim Greenhorn	....	production sound mixer
Alex Joseph	....	foley supervisor
Alan MacFeely	....	sound trainee
David Mackie	....	second assistant
Michael Miller	....	adr mixer
Fred Paragano	....	adr mixer
Kevin Penney	....	foley editor
Margit Pfeiffer	....	sound editor
Mike Prestwood Smith	....	sound re-recording mixer
Richard Pryke	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jacob Ribicoff	....	sound effects editor
Tristan Tarrant	....	boom operator

Special Effects by
Helen Badley	....	special effects coordinator
Jonathan Bullock	....	special effects technician
Scot Erb	....	model maker
Ricky Farns	....	senior special effects technician
Dean Ford	....	special effects technician
Peter Hutchinson	....	special effects supervisor
Stephen Hutchinson	....	special effects supervisor
Ben James	....	special effects trainee (uncredited)
Luke Murphy	....	senior special effects technician
Stuart Prior	....	special effects technician

Visual Effects by
Adam Glasman	....	digital intermediate colourist
Timothy P. Jones	....	digital film bureau
Adriano Mulè	....	roto/prep artist
Donal Nolan	....	digital compositor
Patrick O'Casey	....	digital compositor
Aurora Shannon	....	digital intermediate assistant
Serdar Simga	....	digital matte painter
Pragti Wadhwa	....	digital compositor

Stunts
Steve Griffin	....	stunt coordinator
Silvia Logan	....	stand in (as Silvia Lombardo)
Riccardo Mioni	....	stunt driver
Stefano Maria Mioni	....	stunt coordinator: Italy

Camera and Electrical Department
Nick Allsop	....	clapper loader dailies
Jonathan Ames	....	video assistant
Chas Bain	....	camera operator: "c" camera
Mike Baldassari	....	theatrical lighting
Alfie Biddle	....	assistant camera
George Bird	....	electrician
Leila Bundy	....	lighting technician
Michael Carstensen	....	second video assist
Stefano Di Pasquali	....	grip: Italy
Chris Dunford	....	vari*lite tech
Kevin Edland	....	best boy
Jonathan England	....	camera trainee
Stephen Fell	....	electrical rigger
John Gamble	....	first assistant camera
John Higgins	....	gaffer
Alex Howard	....	lighting technician: follow spot operator
Gary Hutchings	....	grip
Gary Hymns	....	grip
David James	....	still photographer
Keith Johnson	....	vari*lite tech
Peter Lambert	....	senior production electrician
Chaz Lyon	....	second assistant camera: "a" camera
Stefano Marino	....	gaffer: Italy
Jean Martin	....	assistant camera
Stephen Mathie	....	lighting programmer
David Maund	....	best boy grip
Adrian McCarthy	....	key grip
Danny McGee	....	practical electrician
Joe McGee	....	practical electrician
Simon Muir	....	grip
Spencer Murray	....	assistant camera: dailies
Romualdo Nati	....	technocrane technician: Italy Unit
Gary Nolan	....	electrician
Giorgio Pezzotti	....	grip: Italy
Carlo Postiglione	....	grip
George Powell	....	crane technician: Technocrane
Steve Reeve	....	vari*lite tech
George Richmond	....	Steadicam operator
George Richmond	....	camera operator: "a" camera
Jonathan 'Chunky' Richmond	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
David L. Sadler	....	moving light programmer
Marco Sticchi	....	rigging gaffer: Italy
Simon Targett	....	vari*lite tech
Andy Thomson	....	stabilized scorpio head technician
Ben Timms	....	vari*lite tech
Mauro Toscano	....	camera loader: Italy
Daniele Verdenelli	....	electrician: Italy
Martyn Welland	....	electrician
Dave Wells	....	crane grip
Zoe Whittaker	....	video operator
Marc Woodcock	....	lighting technician
Francesco Zaccaria	....	rigging gaffer sutri location

Casting Department
Elizabeth Chodar	....	casting assistant
Kathy Driscoll	....	casting associate
Dann Fink	....	additional voice casting
Bernadette Gepheart	....	casting assistant
David Grindrod	....	dance casting
Béatrice Kruger	....	casting director: Italy
Veronika Mancino	....	casting assistant: Italy
Flavia Toti Lombardozzi	....	casting assistant
Matt Wells	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jennifer Alford	....	costume maker
Carrie Arakaki	....	costumer
Charlotte Child	....	key costumer
Enrica Iacoboni	....	costumer
Linda Lashley	....	costumer
Rachel Lilley	....	costume runner
Giovanni Lipari	....	set costumer
Cristina Marta	....	seamstress
Sarah Moore	....	dyer
Danielle Phelps	....	wardrobe assistant
Uliva Pizzetti	....	costume supervisor
Stephanie Portnoy Porter	....	costumer (as Stephanie Portnoy)
Lisa Robinson	....	costume maker
Sunny Rowley	....	key costumer
Christian W. Snell	....	wardrobe assistant
Maurizio Torti	....	assistant costume supervisor
Giada Tricomi	....	wardrobe assistant
Sheena Wichary	....	costume department coordinator
Celia Yau	....	costume assistant
Dominic Young	....	costume cutter

Editorial Department
Gavin Buckley	....	first assistant editor
Russell Coppleman	....	colorist: Arion
Emily Greenwood	....	digital film editor
David A. Smith	....	first assistant editor (US )
Faye Stevens	....	post-production coordinator
Rob Farris	....	digital intermediate producer (uncredited)

Music Department
John Barrett	....	assistant scoring engineer
Christopher Benstead	....	music editor
Doug Besterman	....	orchestrator: songs
Paul Bogaev	....	conductor
Paul Bogaev	....	music supervisor
Ben Foster	....	conductor
Isobel Griffiths	....	orchestra contractor
Arthur Kopit	....	lyrics by
Angela Leus	....	music coordinator
Peter Rotter	....	additional music contracting
Curt Sobel	....	supervising music editor
Matthew Rush Sullivan	....	executive music producer
Robin Urdang	....	music consultant
Maury Yeston	....	lyrics by

Transportation Department
Daniele Abeille	....	transportation manager: Italy
Martin Birmingham	....	transportation manager
Fabio Carlà	....	transportation coordinator
Jimmy Carruthers	....	unit driver
Mark Crowley	....	driver;nicole kidman
Alan Emanuel	....	unit driver
Lee Isgar	....	driver: Marion Cotillard
Stephen Lawrence	....	driver: Stacy Ferguson
Rob MacKnight	....	driver: unit minibus
Edoardo Moracci	....	transportation captain: Italy

Other crew
Diego 'Flora' Avesani	....	interpreter to director
Matteo Bardelli	....	set production assistant: italy
Guy Barker	....	financial controller
Holly Bates	....	construction accountant
Danielle Bennett	....	floor runner
Joshua Berman	....	co-production supervisor: Italy
Barbara Bevacqua	....	set production assistant: Italy
Charlotte Bushnell	....	assistant: production designer
Sara Carelli	....	assistant production coordinator: italy
Tony Carter	....	production runner
Roisin Carty	....	dialect coach
Tommaso Colognese	....	assistant: Daniel Day-Lewis
Luca Costa	....	voice actor
Sarah Crowe	....	trainee script supervisor
Susan d'Arcy	....	unit publicist
Leonardo de Angelis	....	assistant locations
John DeLuca	....	choreographer
Flavio De Simone	....	cashier: Italy
Elton Farla	....	unit medic
Bob Farrell	....	crowd runner: dailies
Denise Faye	....	associate choreographer
Chiara Frosi	....	set production assistant: italy
Bernardo Galli	....	assistant accountant: Italy
Gianluca Gamberini	....	set production assistant: italy
Emily Gardner	....	production runner
Christian Giuliani	....	production coordinator: Italy
Michael Harm	....	location manager
Steve Harvey	....	location scout
Charlie Hayes	....	location assistant: UK
Daniel Herther	....	executive assistant: mr. kavanaugh
Adrian Hubbard	....	floor runner: dailies
Tara Nicole Hughes	....	associate choreographer
Jodi Hurwitz	....	cast liason
Pamela Joyce	....	travel and accommodation coordinator
Beth Hearn Keech	....	production secretary
Gabby Le Rasle	....	production coordinator
Liam Lock	....	additional floor runner
Keiran Mahon	....	locations runner
Rob Marshall	....	choreographer
Marco Mattei	....	production accountant
Marco Mattei	....	production accountant: Italy
Julie McDonnell	....	stand-in: Marion Cotillard
Robin Melville	....	location scout: italy
Clive Miles	....	location scout
Flora Moody	....	assistant to hair and makeup designer
Giuseppe Nardi	....	location manager
Carolyn O'Reilly	....	production runner
Ann Ormesher	....	assistant accountant
Finlay Pile	....	assistant location manager: UK
Andrea Piria	....	assistant accountant: Italy
Justine Raczkiewicz	....	assistant to production executive
Lee Robertson	....	location scout
Luca John Rosati	....	set production assistant
Camilla Sergenti Castellani	....	assistant production coordinator: Italy
Gemma Smithers	....	first assistant accountant
Tom Stourton	....	location scout
Helen Swanwick	....	assistant production coordinator trainee
Antonia Tammaro	....	payroll accountant: Italy
David Tanner	....	assistant: executive producer
Lisa Vick	....	script supervisor
Raffaello Vignoli	....	production secretary: Italy
Daniella Wells	....	personal assistant: Penelope Cruz
Teddy Wenger III	....	second assistant: Rob Marshall and John DeLuca
Dan Whitty	....	location scout
Laura Windows	....	base runner
Peter Arpesella	....	voice actor (uncredited)
Sadie Miller	....	stand-in (uncredited)
Justine Raczkiewicz	....	assistant: production executive (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Weinstein Company, The
• Relativity Media
• Marc Platt Productions
• Lucamar Productions
• Cattleya (co-producer)

Distributors

• Weinstein Company, The (2009) (USA) (theatrical)
• Alliance Films (2009) (Canada) (theatrical)
• Entertainment Film Distributors (2009) (UK) (theatrical)
• Kino Swiat (2010) (Poland) (theatrical)
• Paradiso Entertainment (2009) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2010) (Argentina) (theatrical)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2010) (Australia) (theatrical)
• Wide Pictures (2009) (Spain) (theatrical)
• Midget Entertainment (2009) (Denmark) (all media)
• Noble Entertainment (2009) (Sweden) (all media)
• Odeon (2009) (Greece) (all media)
• Prorom Media-Trade (2009) (Romania) (all media)
• Showtime Networks (2010) (USA) (TV)
• Sony Pictures Releasing (2010) (Brazil) (all media)
• Star Media Entertainment (2009) (Norway) (all media)

Special Effects

• Effects Associates
• Fugitive Studios (end credits)

Other Companies

• ARRI Media  grip equipment & cranes provided by
• Alf Service  lighting balloons
• Arion Facilities  hd telecine dailies transfer
• Audiolink Radio Communications  walkie talkies/mobiles
• Bluff Hampton Company, The  visual effects by
• Casting Collective  extras casting
• Docfarla Medical Support  medical coordination
• Eastwood (Sound and Vision)  additional Pro Tools systems supplied by
• Geffen Records  soundtrack
• HireWorks  Avid Nitris DX rental
• Kodak  motion picture film supplier
• Momoco/Maguffin  main title sequence
• Panalux  film lighting
• Panavision UK  camera equipment provided by
• Post Factory NY  post-production facilities
• Soundelux  sound post-production

Also Known As:

Untitled Rob Marshall Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content and smoking.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #45660)

Filming Locations:

Camber Sands, Camber, East Sussex, England, UK

Company:

Weinstein Company, The

Trivia:

Kate Hudson mentioned in an interview with Oprah in November 2009 that it took about six weeks to rehearse her number "Cinema Italiano", and about 2 days to film. She also said that making the movie was "maybe [her] best experience to date".

Quotes:

Liliane La Fleur: [adjusting the collar of Guido's suit] You're a world class liar, darling. Go out there and lie for Italy. Lie for Italia.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Dancing with the Stars: Round Nine: Results Show (#9.19)" (2009/I)

Another excellent adaptation from Rob Marshall

The film is beautiful, visually stunning, and exciting, and the cast is remarkable, especially Penelope Cruz (no surprise there), Marion Cotillard (her singing is wonderful), and the gal who blows the doors off -- an unrecognizable (to me, anyhow) Fergie! I was watching the credits to see who the hell played Saraghina, and was stunned to learn it was Stacy Ferguson. Go Fergie! Judi Dench is a smash as well. Nicole Kidman doesn't reveal anything we haven't seen before, but she does bring the large dollop of Movie Star shine for which her role calls. Even Kate Hudson pleases; her 60's go-go dance will inevitably bring comparisons to her mother's "Laugh In" heyday.

Having said all that, I honestly don't know who is the audience for this film. "Nine" was hardly the Broadway smash that "Dreamgirls", or "Chicago" was, and the score is entirely obscure. Additionally, do most people really care about the trials and tribulations of a self-involved, duplicitous 1960's-era Italian filmmaker? Does it matter? Do you have to actually like the protagonist to learn something from his experiences? Box-office-wise, this picture is going to live or die on the reviews, and people's interest in seeing these actresses shine. (I read here that Renee Zellwegger was under consideration for a role in this film... What a disaster that would have been!) And, of course, those who like seeing Daniel Day Lewis stretch new muscles (he chain smokes! He sings!) I enjoyed it very, very much... and now I'm very curious to see what the world thinks of it.