9

Year: 2009
USA: Focus Features
UK: Universal Pictures International UK
Cast (voices of): Elijah Wood, John C Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Fred Tatasciore, Alan Oppenheimer, Tom Kane, Helen Wilson
Director: Shane Acker
Country: USA
USA & UK: 79 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for violence and scary images
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate sustained threat
USA Release Date: 11 September 2009
UK Release Date: 28 October 2009


Synopsis

Academy Award®-nominated director Shane Acker teams up with two of the world's most visionary filmmakers, Tim Burton (THE CORPSE BRIDE, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY) and Timur Bekmambetov (WANTED, NIGHT WATCH), to bring a totally unique and visually stunning animated fantasy epic to screen. Written by Shane Acker and Pamela Pettler.

When the small rag doll 9 (THE LORD OF THE RING'S Elijah Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small community of others like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the landscape intent on doing them harm.

Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are ever to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place.

What follows is a sublime, heart warming adventure where this most unlikely of heroes leads his troops into battle and, along the way, discovers that a band of miniature warriors may be the last hope for humanity