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Three Dollars (2005)

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An honest and compassionate man finds himself at the age of 38 with a wife and child to support, and only three dollars to his name.

R, 1 hr. 59 min.

Drama, Comedy

Outsider Pictures

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All Critics (5) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)

This adaptation of Elliot Perlman's 1998 novel shifts uneasily at times around weighty themes, but its essential humanism still strikes chords.

September 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
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Three Dollars, a depressing muddle of a film from Australia, isn't likely to cause a stampede to purchase the award-winning novel on which it is based.

September 8, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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Audience Reviews for Three Dollars

Started off okay, but got too bleak too quickly. I mean, for goodness sake, why didn't he just go and claim social security since both he and his wife were unemployed?! The gang beatings bit was pretty grim too. Unfortunately it was not unbelievable as there are plenty of people like that here, (sadly), but it was a

January 1, 2010
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Super Reviewer

This was the most boring and most disappointing movie I have ever watched. It meandered between irrelevant interludes and mind-numbing dialogue before attempting a crescendo and ending on an anticlimax. The story was implausible. All the family scenes seemed to be written by someone who idealises family life but has

December 20, 2006
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