Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Nine Lives (2005) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane, Dakota Fanning DIRECTOR: Rodrigo García CINEMATOGRAPHY: Xavier Grobet MUSIC: Edward Shearmur PRODUCTION: Mockingbird Pictures, Z Films

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Nine Lives (2005). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Awards Won: ★ Golden Leopard

Additional Recognition: *Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama (Robin Wright Penn, nominee) *Satellite Award for Best Original Screenplay (nominee) *ALMA Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture (Elpidia Carrillo, winner) *ALMA Award for Director of a Motion Picture (nominee) *National Board of Review Award for Excellence In Filmmaking (winner) *Independent Spirit Award for Best Director (nominee) *Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay (nominee) *Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress (Robin Wright Penn, nominee) *William Shatner's The Golden Groundhog Awards for Best Underground Movie (nominee) *Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Ensemble Cast (nominee)

CRITICAL RECEPTION

Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports a score of 76% from 86 critics. The critical consensus reads, "Nine Lives is bolstered by a strong cast and features many insightful glimpses into the lives of women". Metacritic gave score a film of 80 based on 25 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Stephen Holden of The New York Times described it as "a film that may be the closest movies have come to the cinematic equivalent of a collection of Chekhov short stories. The film's reward for intense concentration is a feeling of deep empathy and connection. For once, you don't harbor the uneasy suspicion of having been emotionally manipulated ... Mr. García has made a film that could be described as radically realistic ... In its subtle, understated performances, the actors vanish into characters who behave like ordinary people observed through one-way glass."

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said, "Rodrigo Garcia ... the son of the novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez ... has the same love for his characters, and although his stories are all (except for one) realistic, he shares his father's appreciation for the ways lives interweave and we touch each other even if we are strangers.