Three Dollars

Project Type: Past Project

Delivery Date: 2005

Three Dollars is the story of Eddie (David Wenham), an honest, compassionate man who finds himself with a wife, a child, and three dollars.

Eddie's world revolves around the three women in his life: his brilliant wife Tanya (Frances O'Connor), a passionate academic, their six year old daughter Abby (Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik), who heightens the stakes on every decision Eddie makes, and his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful, privileged Amanda (Sarah Wynter), who re-appears in his life with mathematical certainty every nine and a half years.

At any other time the world would have smiled on Eddie. But times have changed and the world values other things.

Surviving with a blend of self-depreciating wit, spirited sensitivity and a big heart, Eddie's life is rich with the pleasures and pains of love, family, friendship and marriage.

But with only three dollars to his name Eddie will be faced with a choice that will change the direction of his life forever.

Director: Robert Connolly

Producer: John Maynard

Executive Producers: Andrew Myer and Dominique Green.

Writers: Robert Connolly and Elliot Perlman, based on the novel by Elliot Perlman.

Starring: David Wenham, Frances O'Connor and Sarah Wynter.

Links & PDF’s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrk2G8XCYww&playnext=1&list=PL709120784A086C32&feature=results_main

Awards

Best Adapted Screenplay - AFI (Australia Awards) Best Adapted Screenplay - (FCCA Australia Awards) Young Actors Award - Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik AFI (Australia Awards) Ecumenical Jury Special Mention - Montreal World Film Festival