Nueve reinas
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| Directed by | Fabián Bielinsky |
| Produced by | Cecilia Bossi Pablo Bossi |
| Written by | Fabián Bielinsky |
| Starring | Gastón Pauls Ricardo Darín Leticia Brédice Tomás Fonzi Jorge Noya Oscar Nuñez Ignasi Abadal |
| Music by | César Lerner |
| Cinematography | Marcelo Camorino |
| Editing by | Sergio Zottola |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista International |
| Release date(s) | August 31, 2000 |
| Running time | 114 min. |
| Language | Spanish |
| Budget | $1,500,000 (estimated) |
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Nueve reinas (international, English title: Nine Queens), is a 2000 Argentine film directed by Fabián Bielinsky and starring Gastón Pauls, Ricardo Darín, Leticia Brédice and Tomás Fonzi. It tells the story of two con artists who meet by chance and decide to cooperate in a scam. The film was nominated for 28 awards and won 21 of them.
This film was the basis for the 2004 American remake Criminal, directed by Gregory Jacobs and starring John C. Reilly and Diego Luna.
[edit] Plot summary
Two con men, Marcos and Juan meet, apparently by chance, in a gas station mini-market, early in the morning. Juan attempts to scam the cashier, but makes a mistake when he comes back to pull the same scam on the next shift, too. Marcos, who has been observing this the whole time, steps in pretending to be a police officer, and takes Juan away. As soon as they are far enough from the shop, Marcos tells Juan he is not a cop but a fellow con man. Juan asks Marcos to show him the ropes, because, Juan tells us, his father was a con man, too, but he got locked up in jail for trying to swindle somebody. Juan tells Marcos that he needs the money, because there is a certain judge that accepts bribes and if the money is right, his dad can be released within 6 months, instead of serving 10 years.
Then a once-in-a-lifetime scheme seemingly falls into their laps: the sale of some rare forged stamps, called "The Nine Queens", to a rich Spaniard who is leaving the country the next morning and therefore is unable to check if the stamps are legitimate. The plot thickens when Marcos' sister, Marcos' younger brother and a slew of thieves, con men and pickpockets -old friends of Juan's father- get involved, and the forged stamps get stolen.
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