$9.99 2009 123movies

Watch: $9.99 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Sydney apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives..
Plot: Have you ever wondered “What is the meaning of life? Why do we exist?” The answer to this vexing question is now within your reach! You’ll find it in a small yet amazing booklet, which will explain, in easy to follow, simple terms your reason for being! The booklet, printed on the finest paper, contains illuminating, exquisite colour pictures, and could be yours for a mere $9.99.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 3,352
	73% | RottenTomatoes
	68/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 74 Popularity: 6.103 | TMDB

Reviews:

Witty, interesting and Just a Little Disturbing
Oh Boy was that just a little disturbing.

Stop motion puppets having sex (shudders)

Not really sure that this one had much in a way of a story line. I mean it was good for a one time viewing. But it was just a little to Salvador-Dali-Style-Surreal for my tastes. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the script and the animation was amazing. I love a good bit of stop-motion animation, but this crazy Australian movie has just about turned my brain to stew.

We aren’t saying that this film is bad. In fact considering the short synopsis that this movie has on IMDb we were expecting it to be quite dry and dull, what we actually got was a film that was fairly witty and meaningful…once you got passed the weirdness of it. Don’t be fooled folks, just because this is an animation, does NOT mean that it is safe for children to view. This is very definitely an adult picture, just portrayed in a way that is slightly different than usual.

A Nutshell Review: $9.99
Personally I dig stop-motion animation, for the simple conscious fact that there’s a lot of blood and sweat going on behind the scenes just to get an object to move. You can imagine what it takes to get a character to move an arm, and you extrapolate that effort into a feature length film with a lot more things happening concurrently on screen, and you’re likely to appreciate this artform a lot more, with new found respect for it.

$9.99 is an amazing piece of stop-motion animation coupled with a tremendously engaging story made up of multiple narrative threads, and a myriad of characters attempting to tackle their respective problems in life. It begins with a bang literally, where a homeless man (Geoffrey Rush) with a gun in hand, asks Jim Peck (Anthony LaPaglia) for a cigarette and a light, before launching into some really clever moments about manipulation. It’s an excellent start to jolt you into realizing that this film isn’t just another walk in the park, and as it plays on, you’d discover its brilliance in its commentary about life, as seen from the experiences of the residents in an apartment block.

We have a family of three, with Jim who might just need his karma checked for encountering really antagonizing moments involving death, and his two sons Dave (Samuel Johnson) and Lenny (Ben Mendelsohn), the former being unemployed and is found to be central to the narrative, and the latter being a Repo-man finding himself falling, and obsessing over the love by new neighbour and supermodel Tanita (Leeanna Walsman), who has a fetish for a hairless body. Then there’s a lonely old man who finds the world contents passing him by with nobody interested in hearing him talk a bit (well, because he’s long-winded as well), finding a companion in an angel, whom he asks incessantly about Heaven. Then there’s a boy who has a friend in his piggy bank, and a couple on the verge of being married having to fall out because one of them refuses to grow up.

The “$9.99” comes from the price of a catalog of books, one of which touts to hold The Meaning of Life which Dave buys. Unfortunately, the characters here seem to be caught up in living their own lives and falling victim to respective challenges life presents itself, and so every effort that Dave wants to share gets spurned, and we the audience, unfortunately, don’t get to hear if there are any insights to that. But of course we all know that there’s no silver bullet, and the characters here, though the course of this emotionally moving film, learn of that meaning as it applies in their own, with the old man determined to take a more proactive approach, to a connection between a father and a son, to love found and running parallel to that, a love broken because of sacrifices that one has to make, or the lack thereof, and the maturing of a young child.

I guess nobody scoffs at animation, especially one that targets the mature audience – check out that Dr Manhatten moment. I’ve new found respect for stop-motion animation, and for the filmmakers involved in producing this fine piece of work. The attention to detail is incredible, never at any moment hinting that they had cut some corners and compromised quality. Definitely highly recommended, and easily one of the few films I thoroughly enjoyed in the festival lineup.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 18 min (78 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Director Tatia Rosenthal
Writer Etgar Keret, Tatia Rosenthal
Actors Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson
Country Israel, Australia
Awards 3 wins & 4 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 2,158 m (Portugal, 35 mm)
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm