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Three Dollars (2005)

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Movie Info

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

Directed By: Robert Connolly

In Theaters: Sep 8, 2006 Wide

Outsider Pictures

Cast

David Wenham
Eddie
Frances O'Connor
Tanya
Sarah Wynter
Amanda
Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik
Abby
Robert Menzies
Nick
Nicole Nabout
Kate
David Roberts
Gerard
Christopher Bunworth
Chamberlain
John Flaus
Old Man WIlliamson
Terry Norris
Alfred Price
Julia Blake
Tanya's Mother

Critic Reviews for Three Dollars

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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

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Richard Kuipers

Variety

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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

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

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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

Nicki Marie

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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

Adrian Suttie

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