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  • 2009
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m

Summary 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 color pictu...

Directed By: Tatia Rosenthal

Written By: Etgar Keret, Tatia Rosenthal

  • 2009
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m
  • 2009
  • R
  • Regent Releasing
  • 1 h 18 m

$9.99

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 16 User Ratings
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Summary 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 color pictu...

Directed By: Tatia Rosenthal

Written By: Etgar Keret, Tatia Rosenthal

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Metascore
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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.
By Peter Rainer FULL REVIEW
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A wise, wistful study of hope and dread.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW

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25% Mixed
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13% Negative
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A movie that entertains and enlightens without being preachy - in fact, most of its beliefs are strenuously ambiguous; that’s a key part of the joke.
By Janice Page FULL REVIEW
75
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.
By Tasha Robinson FULL REVIEW
70
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.
By A.O. Scott FULL REVIEW
50
A deliberately coarse character style that's more Gumby than Gromit.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
40
This often haunting stop-motion Claymation movie ultimately suffers from what bedevils many live-action movies culled from short stories: a herky-jerky plot.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Lama Films, Australian Film Finance Corporation (AFFC)
Release Date Jun 19, 2009
Duration 1 h 18 m
Rating R
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Website http://www.lesensdelaviepour9dollars99.com/
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Awards

Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Granada Film Festival Cines del Sur
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Annie Awards
• 2 Nominations

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