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$9.99

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Australia, Israel · 2009
Rated R · 1h 18m
Director Tatia Rosenthal
Starring Geoffrey Rush, Anthony LaPaglia, Samuel Johnson, Ben Mendelsohn
Genre Animation, Drama

Though unemployed, Dave Peck would rather search for the meaning of life than a paying job. One day, while reading a magazine in his Sydney apartment, Dave comes over an advertisement for a booklet guaranteed to tell him the purpose of his existence for a mere $9.99.

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Los Angeles Times by

Less than the sum of its parts. The connective tissue of its episodes and set pieces -- some of which pack a memorable punch -- is not a compelling story line but the painterly physicality of the movie's stop-motion animation.

70

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Though $9.99 manages to be quirky and enigmatic, it is in the end too self-conscious, too satisfied in its eccentricity, to achieve the full mysteriousness toward which it seems to aspire. It is odd, curious, intermittently intriguing but ultimately more interesting for its artifice than for its art.

70

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

The stop-motion animated puppets in Tatia Rosenthal’s beguiling first feature look like clay-mated slabs of glazed meat, at once unreal and hyper-real.

40

New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a herky-jerky plot.

75

New York Post by Kyle Smith

Fans of deadpan comic fantasy writers like Douglas Adams and Kurt Vonnegut are likely to be intrigued by this lively little packet of weird -- then dive like a dolphin into Keret's loopy story volumes.

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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer

Despite everything, many of us still think of animation as a kid's genre. $9.99, based on stories by Etgar Keret who also co-wrote the script with the director, is an attempt to use the animation medium to express an entirely adult sensibility.

75

The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson

Keret’s alternately sweet and bitter sense of humor comes through clearly in $9.99, via warm voicework by vets like Geoffrey Rush and Anthony LaPaglia.

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