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$9.99 (2008) 6.6
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6.6/10 from 1,979 users
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Reviews: 18 user | 44 critic | 15 from Metacritic.com A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Syndey apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives. Director:Tatia Rosenthal |
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Clement
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Stanton
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Bisley
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A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Syndey apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.
Plot Keywords:
stop motion | money in title | advertisement | adult animation | meaning of life |Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
17 September 2009 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
$ 9.99 See more »Filming Locations:
Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaBox Office
Opening Weekend:
$478 (USA) (12 December 2008)Gross:
$52,107 (USA) (15 January 2010)Company Credits
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Composed by Eric Cunningham and Chris Lang
Courtesy of Atmosphere Music Limited
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Featured in The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Star Trek/Rudo y Cursi/Next Day Air (2009) See more »Soundtracks
"Bossa Twangin"Composed by Eric Cunningham and Chris Lang
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One character in this beautifully crafted film buys a book entitled "The Meaning of Life." While we never discover exactly what that book contains, "$9.99" peruses questions about life's meaning with poignancy and affection. It's sad, silly, very human characters are people we know, and real enough so that we might occasionally forget we are watching animation.
This is not a film for the young — there is no "action," no "romance," and little to make a viewer laugh out loud. Rather, we are offered a wryly comic look at human nature, best suited for those who have lived enough of life so as to be able to identify with the film's pathetically flawed characters, and look on them with affection rather than impatience or contempt.
Human beings, the filmmakers suggest, are rarely able to communicate with other human beings, even to express love to those they love most. They are even less likely to fulfill each other's hopes and expectations. It is a pessimistic outlook, to be sure, and rather depressing — but, in the end, we are left with the message that love not only is possible, it is the only thing that gives life any meaning at all. Love — crazy, misguided, or bizarre as it may be — is all that matters.