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The film starring Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon is directed by Alexandre Aja. It is about the survival of a young boy - Louis Drax who gets eight near-death accidents. After his latest dangerous accident, Dr. Allan Pascal decides find the answer for the special boy.
1 May 1982, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
30 June 1972, Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
1 September 1981, North York, Ontario, Canada
12 January 1960, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1983, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
24 July 1967, Haifa, Israel
7 August 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
5 February 1948, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
16 September 1985, Hampstead, London, England, UK
9 August 1975, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
14 October 1972, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
7 August 1958, Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
3 February 1975, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
October 10, 2016
The film promises a fabulous twist that never comes, and delivers instead some cutesy magical realist touches (lots of interior boy brain stuff) and a palpable lack of chemistry between Dornan and Gadon.September 02, 2016
What might be engrossing in Liz Jensen's source novel is oddly opaque in this screen mishmash, and much of what's meant to be tense or suspenseful is merely awkward.September 02, 2016
The 9th Life of Louis Drax excels at grabbing you with a steady stream of provocative and ornate images. But to what end, I'm still not sure.September 02, 2016
A dopey psychological thriller that combines elements of "The Sixth Sense" with an overbearing sentimentality, "The 9th Life of Louis Drax" flat-lines from beginning to end.September 02, 2016
Either you'll be willing to go with some of its wilder visual conceits or you won't. (I was, for the most part.)September 08, 2016
The 9th Life of Louis Drax's flowers from its drama into a paranoid fantasy masterpiece that's as equally enthralling as it is magical.September 07, 2016
So good in Indignation and other recent efforts, Gadon is lost in a part that buffets her between wounded saint and vertiginous femme fatale.September 08, 2016
It's definitely in a class of its own and one of the more unique kids' stories out right now.September 08, 2016
The film is too busy weaving in and out of its many narrative through lines for any [metaphors] to resonate as deeply as they should.September 07, 2016
Louis Drax shoves magic and monsters into a story that's already overpacked with grindhouse violence, a police procedural, a queasy romance, and incoherent social commentary.September 02, 2016
Works as both a children's movie for adults and a grownup movie for kids, a rare balancing act most young-adult fare can't pull off.September 02, 2016
An intriguing but uneven thriller that doesn't fully establish the tone and style that would be needed for an audience to accept its supernatural plot.