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Synopsis: In 1982, a massive star ship bearing a bedraggled alien population, nicknamed "The Prawns," appeared over Johannesburg, South Africa. Twenty-eight years later, the initial welcome by the human population has faded. The refugee camp where the aliens were located has deteriorated into a militarized ghetto called District 9, where they are confined and exploited in squalor. In 2010, the munitions corporation, Multi-National United, is contracted to forcibly evict the population with operative Wikus van der Merwe in charge. In this operation, Wikus is exposed to a strange alien chemical and must rely on the help of his only two new 'Prawn' friends.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Neill Blomkamp
Production: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 30 wins & 110 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2009
112 min
$115,646,235
Website
5,545 Views


using, mam. I'm fokkin'... what?

He tried calling me.

Anton, it's me! It's me!

Accept the call!

I've been friends with you

for fokkin' 13 years, man!

F*** off! What are you watching?

F*** off!

We all thought it was for the best

because he needed help.

A special medical help.

And he wasn't gonna

get that as a fugitive.

He became the most valuable

business artifact on Earth.

He was the only human

who had ever...

successfully been combined with

alien genetics and remained alive.

But his real value was that

he could operate alien weaponry.

Hello.

Can I get some cheese burgers

and one large sauerkraut, please.

We interrupt this program

to bring you breaking news.

A patient has escaped from the

isolation ward and is loose in the city.

Wikus Van De Merwe

was recently apprehended

after prolonged sexual activity

with aliens in District 9.

This is nonsense.

-I have to call my manager.

That is totally untrue.

You are legally obliged to serve me!

...is causing bodily disfigurement.

If I could just buy my burger,

please. Don't listen to them!

It's highly contagious

and the police warns people

to stay at least 20 meters

away from this man.

Don't look at this hand!

This hand is fine!

If you have any information

regarding the whereabouts

of Mr Van De Merwe, contact us

immediately on 0800-stop-wikus.

Stop!

Hi, this is Tania.

-And Wikus.

We can't come

to the phone right now.

Please leave a message. Bye.

-Bye bye.

Control, there's no sign

of mr Van De Merwe.

The entire world was watching him.

He was on every radio station,

every image on television,

anything you could find

had his face on it.

So he had nowhere else to go.

He ended up hiding in the one place

he knew no one would ever

come looking for him.

Pay now,or nothing.

I pay you next week, I promise.

No money - you get nothing.

F***ing prawn, this isn't charity.

Hello, I'd like to buy

some meat, please.

Hey, a man!

Yes, have you got a hamburger,

or a steak roll?

Does it look like

a hamburger shop?

Which one do you want? Goat?

Come on, come on,

I don't have the whole day.

Is that a cat food there?

-Yeah, yeah, it is.

I'll have some of that, guys.

F***, man!

Hello, hello?

Baby is that you? Tania?

God, please let it be you.

Yes, it's me.

I'm so happy you called me, baby.

Wikus, listen to me. -Okay.

I have something to say to you,

and it's not gonna be easy.

No, no, look... listen baby,

before you say anything...

Your father is working against me,

but he's lying to you.

I did not have sex

with one of these...

...fokkin' creatures, man!

I would never have any kind of

pornographic activity

with a fokkin' creature!

They say that you're becoming

one of them. I can't do this...

Baby please, don't give up on me.

Don't give up on me baby,

because I can...

I want to see you again, baby.

I'm gonna fix my arm

and I'm gonna see you again,

and I'm gonna kiss you

and I'm gonna hold you again.

I also want you

to hold me again.

Baby?

Baby?

Hey! Hey man!

Okay...

We are on tracking

directly to the location.

Roger that. I'll send you a

couple of choppers for backup.

You!

What do you want?

Come in, control, there is

our target moving to 66.

-You have to go.

-Please, I need your help.

We're gonna play hide and seek.

-Yes! Yes! -No, get back.

You want me to hide? Show me

your favorite hiding place.

Please, just go.

Leave us alone.

No, please, I need to hide.

They wanna kill me.

I just need to hide in here,

sir, for 5 minutes, okay?

What is this?

What are you doing here?

I remember you. -Nothing.

You must hide somewhere else.

Sir... please sir,

you have to help me.

I'm losing blood,

they're trying to kill me.

Only one thing that could

make that happen...

Quick! We have to hide him.

Now you... get down there.

Where's the fluid?

What did you do with it?

-Please!

-You took it...

I don't know what

you're talking about!

...I know you did.

I can see what's happening to you.

Tell me where it is.

Alright, alright.

Was it a black fluid

in a flask container?

Yes, that's it. Yes!

I confiscated it and

the guys at the lab took it.

It will be at the MNU.

MNU has it.

What is this?

-You ruined everything.

-Where is this?

Is that your shack?

This whole thing

is under your shack?

For 20 years you've...

this whole fokking' thing in here?

Jesus, this is very illegal.

I mean, this is a find, you know.

I wish they catch you with this.

Fuel goes in here.

That's enough! Quiet!

Then we fly away.

I said quiet!

We cannot trust him.

What is he saying about the fuel?

Are you trying to start this thing?

Are you little f***ers trying

to start this and get away?

Never mind.

Yeah, you sneaky fokkin' prawns.

Too bad. I could've fixed you.

What? What did you say...

about the fixing?

What do you mean

you could fix me?

Forget it.

It doesn't matter, it's too late.

No, listen! Listen.

Are you saying that you can...

turn this prawn hand

into a human hand?

You can make me human again?

We have medical machines on the

mothership that can fix you. Yes.

We can use this ship

to fly up there.

That's fantastic!

You guys are brilliant!

I always thought that prawns

were intelligent. Let's do it.

I don't have fluid.

I could fix you and I could fly away.

But I don't have fluid.

Right, okay.

All right, I tell you what.

Why don't we...

go risk it some more?

Let's go collect some up.

It took twenty years

to collect that amount.

F***, man! F***!

F***! The only one that exists

is the one I confiscated?

Yes.

It's four stories underground.

Why does he keep looking at me

like that? -He likes you.

We are the same.

We're not the same.

We're not the fokkin' same.

There is a way out of this.

We get the fluid back from MNU.

Yeah, and what then?

Then we both die, eh?

Both of us dead.

That's a suicide mission, man.

Can you not fill my head

with that sort of nonsense?

The transformation is accelerating.

You don't have much time.

F***! F***! F***!

Hello.

-Wikus?

-Tania! Baby...

-Are you okay?

-Oh God! Thank God...

Where are you?

I'am...

It's not like my father said.

I know he was lying to protect me.

I just don't know

what to believe anymore.

Baby I know, but listen to me.

It's all lies, I swear to you.

Everything he said to you is lies.

-I know.

-What? What?

I don't believe him, Wikus.

I just want you back.

I want everything back

the way it was.

That's... baby, that's what I want.

That's great!

That's great news.

I can make it the way it was.

If you take me back.

How? How can we go back?

I have a plan.

I know how to fix it.

I know how to fix myself.

And it will be me.

And we'll be back together.

-You promise me?

-I promise you, baby.

Don't give up on me, okay?

Because I haven't

given up on you. All right?

I won't.

-I love you.

-I love you too.

Tell me you got a fix on him.

-D9.

How many moons

does our planet have?

Seven.

This planet only has one.

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Neill Blomkamp

Neill Blomkamp (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈnil ˈblumkamp]; born 17 September 1979) is a South African-born Canadian film director, producer, screenwriter, and animator. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful science fiction film District 9, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He directed the dystopian science fiction film Elysium, which garnered moderately positive reviews and a good box office return. He is known for his collaborations with South African actor Sharlto Copley. He is based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. Forbes named him as the 21st most powerful celebrity from Africa. more…

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