Fresh
This adaptation of Elliot Perlman's 1998 novel shifts uneasily at times around weighty themes, but its essential humanism still strikes chords.
Richard Kuipers, Variety
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Three Dollars
Overview
Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy life as a government land assessor. Yet when the forces of economic and social change threaten this, he realises just how fragile his reality and security is. After losing his job, he checks his bank balance and finds he has only 'three dollars' to his name.
Director and cast
- Robert Connolly Director
- David Wenham as Eddie Harnovey
- Sarah Wynter as Amanda
- Frances O'Connor as Tanya Harnovey
- David Roberts as Gerard
- Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik as Abby Harnovey
- Nico Billeam as Tiny
- Christopher Bunworth as Chamberlain
- Nicole Nabout as Kate
- Phillip Griffiths as Young Eddie Harnovey
- Casey Petersen as Young Amanda
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Rotten
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.
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle
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