Three Dollars
An honest, compassionate man in his late 30s, Eddie works in a government office responsible for assessing land earmarked for development. One day he loses his job and is escorted from the building. Eddie finds himself with a wife, a child and three dollars in his pocket. Eddie's world revolves around the three women in his life: his brilliant wife Tanya, a passionate academic, their 6-year-old daughter Abby, who heightens the stakes on every decision Eddie makes, and his childhood sweetheart Amanda, who reappears in his life withmathematical 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 bit of self-deprecating 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.
THREE DOLLARS is the story of an Australian chemical engineer confronted with an ethical dilemma when he discovers plans to build houses on contaminated land. The film, dealing realistically and sometimes humourously with a highly individualized and corrupt social system, shows a man’s integrity as he opposes the plans and the support he receives unexpectedly from people living on the margins of society.