What's this movie about?
Anyone know?
I think it's better to break a man's leg than his heart.
-Seabiscuit
i have absolutly no idea, ive searched everywhere i know, and i cannot find any information on it!!
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* It’s being reported that Frances O’Connor (A.I.: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) has joined David Wenham and Sarah Wynter in THREE DOLLARS. Hope the film turns out to be as good as the cast
Three Dollars
At once humorous and dramatic, THREE DOLLARS is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at age 38, with a wife, a child and three dollars.
(http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=16643)
How did he get that way? And who is Amanda? He cared about people; he was, Amanda notwithstanding, a good husband, father and son. Any other time the world would have smiled on him. Nut this was the '90s and the world valued other things.
THREE DOLLARS chronicles the present breach of the social contract and its effects on a home near you. It is a brilliantly deft portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family and his sense of humour in grim and pitiless times; times of downsizing and deregulation. It is about us, now. EXCERPT from Chapter 1
Every nine and a half years I see Amanda. This is not a rule. It does not have to happen but it does. It has happened four times that I have seen her every nine and a half years which tends to make it more like a rule than an exception. But each time it is always and everywhere exceptional. Most recently was today. I had three dollars.
As children we were put in the same class at school although she was younger than me, and has been ever since. It was part of a pilot programme to have the brightest children from the year below put into a composite class with the brightest children of the year above and me. I don't know how I got into that class because I had not demonstrated a particular capacity for anything much. It was not that I was not interested in things but rather that I was interested in too many things. This interest in everything was completely internal to me, without external manifestations, and so went unnoticed by all adults except my parents, who were worried by it. I would just sit around and think; at least that's the way I remember it http://www.thei.aust.com/sydney/biographies/perlman.html)
So it's a book by a writer named Elliot Perlman, and it's being made into a movie staring David Wenham, Sarah Wynter, and Frances O'Connor
Well, sounds interesting. David will probably play Eddie, hm?
So, thanx for the info...
- Melendil
"Your father loves you, and will remember it ere the end." - Gandalf
It`s due for release in April 2005. David will be playing Eddie.
Here`s a link with a picture!
http://www.dendyfilms.com.au/threedollars.html
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I saw the finished movie at a preview screening in Melbourne a couple of nights ago (the same night as it premiered in Sydney), and there were Elvis & Joy Division songs in the soundtrack
It was a very very good film - definitely the best to come out of Australia in a long while. Very emotional and real, one of those films where one moment you're on the verge of tears and the next you're laughing out loud. The cast and acting were fantastic, and the script was also brilliant (Eliot Perlman co-authored the script as well as the novel on which it was based). I would recommend checking it out if you can.
I can't wait to see this film. I absolutely loved the book to pieces when I read it last year and now dear old Diver Dan is in it! Yay! I also liked THe Bank so it should be good.
"What did you say? What are you doing, son? Are you giggling? On my ship, giggling?!"