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Nine Queens
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767882965
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0767882962
Label: Sony Pictures
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
MPN: D07901D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 01, 2002
Running Time: 115 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Nine Queens joins a line of sly thrillers about master-pupil con artists and games within games within games that includes The Sting, House of Games, and Heist. In the first five minutes, we watch an overt scam--a young Argentinian named Juan (Gastón Pauls) running the two-10s-for-a-5 hornswoggle on a convenience store clerk--then find that we have been tricked along with the bystanders as another brand of deception kicks in. And so it goes as Juan, with both trepidation and excitement, drifts into partnership for a day with an older, more cosmopolitan conman, Marcos (Ricardo Darín). Knocking around Buenos Aires--from gritty downtown to cozy neighborhood side streets to a swank hotel where wealth murmurs behind every door--these damnably resourceful scoundrels try not to miss a bet, including an epic swindle involving the titular "Nine Queens," a set of ultrarare stamps. Writer-director Fabián Bielinsky keeps a taut rein on everything, including his own cleverness. The end result is an entertainment as bracingly disciplined as it is ingenious. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - An Argentinian Gem
If you ever need a reminder that you can make a class A film on a
shoe-string budget, rent Nueve Reinas (Nine Queens), a marvelous,
gripping, and often very funny drama about the culture of con-men and
those whom they con. I'm not sure what the budget of this film was, and
I'm sure the very professional and excellent actors and crew were
well-paid, but my point is that the story-line and direction are what
make this film, and the actors are so well-cast that it ... Read More
Rating:  - Who is conning who?
Nine Queens is a pretty good Argentinean movie full of cons and twists that you are never really sure who is cunning who. Two con men partner to carry out a con that will get them a lot of money: selling a counterfeit copy of the Nine Queens Stamps. Along the way to carry their con they have to deal with conning each other, staying sharp, theft of the nine queens, people that want money to stay quiet and a sister that a bit bitter about an inheritance she was supposed to get and never received. Too ... Read More
Rating:  - a true gem
This is my favorite of all times - amongst the foreign pictures :)
This Argentinian film tells the story of two swindlers who meet by pure luck, or is it really? and they set up together a scam surrounding the Nine Queens stamps.
Director Fabian Bielinsky has a passion for Wilder and Mankiewicz's films, and more precisely for their elaborate double-crossing deceits, as is obvious in this film.
The movie is a true gem that is most unfortunately forgotten because ... Read More
Rating: - Charming light thriller
Juan, a small-time thief, gets caught swindling a store, but Marcos, a more experienced con man, gets him out of that jam and says he'll teach the younger man the ropes. A former associate of Marcos's who is a master forger says he's designed a fake copy of an extremely rare German set of stamps known as the "Nine Queens" they can sell quick and dear to a wealthy collector who has to flee the country in a day or so to escape an investigation. Their pigeon is lodged at the Hilton where Marcos's shapely ... Read More
Rating: - nine queend
the movie was ok.. i just bought beacuse my boyfriend wanted it
but the movie case came broken
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