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The Ninth Gate
Prebook 6/20/00; Street 7/18/00 Artisan, Thriller, Price NA, 'R,' 133 min., PPV NA, $18.6 million box office.
Stars Johnny Depp, Lena Olin, Frank Langella.
Artisan Entertainment's The Ninth Gate gives viewers a bit more than just some Johnny Depp eye-andy.
It's dark, creepy and mostly improbable, but worth watching just for the weirdness of the whole thing.
Depp plays Dean Corso, a salt andpepper-haired rare book dealer who is hired by the astute Boris Balkan (Frank Langella) to find the other two copies of a demon" book titled The Nine Gates of the King...