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David Wenham, Frances O'Connor, Sarah Wynter, Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik, Robert Menzies ... see more see more... , Nicole Nabout , David Roberts , Christopher Bunworth , John Flaus , Terry Norris , Julia Blake

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.

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R, 1 hr. 59 min.

Directed by: Robert Connolly

Release Date: September 8, 2006

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  • romy861
    January 1, 2010
    romy861
    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 peop... read morele 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.

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Richard Kuipers
September 8, 2006
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. Full Review

Ruthe Stein
September 8, 2006
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. Full Review

September 26, 2006
Film Threat

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Jeffrey M. Anderson
September 23, 2006
Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

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