Three Dollars

R

2005

1 hr. 59 min.

Comedy

Drama

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500+ Ratings

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A chemical engineer (David Wenham) struggles to take care of his wife (Frances O'Connor) and his daughter (Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik) after losing his job.

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One Of My Favourite Films As It Highlights How Sudden & Abruptly Life Can Take A Turn For The Worse By No Fault Of Your Own Other Than Happenstance. It Is A Perspective Rarely Visited In Films & That Is Why This Is Such A Gem.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/21/23

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i quite enjoyed this movie. it had a nice message.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Much as I like David Wenham, I found this flick pretty boring.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/22/23

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A charming film with a heavy story about a man trying to do good in a not so good time.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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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 little in your face for the type of movie that this was aiming to be. I also thought the Amanda storyline was going to go somewhere, but that just fizzled. By all means not a bad movie, but it just couldn't seem to decide what it was going for.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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good aussie film, quite mysterious at times, moves along very much like life.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Robert Connolly

Director

David Wenham

Eddie

Frances O'Connor

Tanya

Sarah Wynter

Amanda

Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik

Abby

Robert Menzies

Nick

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Richard Kuipers

Variety

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

Sep 8, 2006

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Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

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.

Rated: 1/4

Sep 8, 2006

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Rated: 2/5

Sep 26, 2006

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Synopsis

A chemical engineer (David Wenham) struggles to take care of his wife (Frances O'Connor) and his daughter (Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik) after losing his job.

Director: Robert Connolly
Executive Producer: Dominique Green, Andrew Myer
Screenwriter: Robert Connolly, Elliot Perlman
Production Co: Arena Films
Rating: R (Brief Violence|Some Sexuality|Language)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

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