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When two small-time thieves enter a risky high-stakes con game together..Neither the players nor the audience knows for sure who is playing whom in this taught psychological thriller that will keep you guessing till the very last second. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Ricardo Darin Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R Director: Fabian Belinsky
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
When two small-time thieves enter a risky high-stakes con game together..Neither the players nor the audience knows for sure who is playing whom in this taught psychological thriller that will keep you guessing till the very last second. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Ricardo Darin Run time: 115 minutes Rating: R Director: Fabian Belinsky
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
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 1 October 2002
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780767882965 UPC: 043396079014
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