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4. In which of these stories, if any, did you detect a sense of hope? Where was their hope placed? If you could have talked to any one of these characters, what might you have said, and why?

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Nine Lives is rated R for frequent profane language, as well as some sexually suggestive dialogue. There is one explicit sex scene, but no nudity. There is an implication of incest and a disturbing image of a homicidal/suicidal woman with a gun.

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It's nine big screen stories for the price of one in director Rodrigo García's Nine Lives.

Garcia's film follows the lives of nine women through realistic vignettes about their differing lives. Mainstream critics are powerfully impressed, saying that Garcia's movie is "a quantum leap better than its forerunners"—Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her and Ten Tiny Love Stories.

Harry Forbes (Catholic News Service) says, "Here you have nine movies for the price of one, and though not all are equally good, each is worthy, and several are outstanding. … Garcia has fashioned a thoughtful—and often sad—meditation on mankind's interconnection. … Garcia's dialogue has extraordinary naturalness about it, which, together with the perfectly judged performances, surmount the occasional slow patches. … Though its quiet power won't be to every taste, 'Nine Lives' feels like the stuff of life, warts and all."

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