Nine Days
[Opens Aug. 6 in theaters.] After a 28-year-old violinist (Lisa Starrett) is killed in a tragic car accident, which leaves an open position on Earth for a new soul in Edson Oda's poignant, original, creative, complicated, thought-provoking, well-written, 124-minute, 2020 supernatural thriller, a mysterious, 37-year-old Black arbiter (Winston Duke), who lives in a remote house in the desert, watches the lives of people on multiple television screens and then interviews with the help of a friend (Benedict Wong) five souls (Tony Hale, Bill SkarsgÄrd, Zazie Beetz, David Rysdahl, and Arianna Ortiz) competing for the vacancy on Earth over a nine-day period, and if they are not chosen to have a life on Earth, their existence is erased.
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