THE NINES is a complex thought-provoking work divided into three sections and featuring the same actors playing different roles with the number nine always lurking in the background. In The Prisoner Ryan Reynolds plays Gary a TV star who has been placed under house arrest after going crazy because his girlfriend dumped him. He is watched closely by Margaret a publicist who seems to know more than she is letting on and by neighbour Sarah who is instantly attracted to him. In Reality Television Reynolds is a director named Gavin who is shooting a TV pilot starring McCarthy but hes getting mixed signals from studio executive Susan all while being filmed for a television reality program. And in Knowing Reynolds is Gabriel the character in the TV pilot that Gavin was shooting with McCarthy playing his wife Mary and Davis as a mysterious stranger deciding whether she should help the family whose car has broken down on a deserted mountain. Certain minute elements repeat in each part giving clues as to what its all really about as fantasy and reality intertwine.