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  Review by C_elegans ★★★½

  To be honest, I always thought, that Christopher Walken looked kinda pale and sick. He brings the great joy to this fun but fluffy roadmovie, whatsoever.

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  Review by bulletproofQpid ★★★

  "Did you know that the question mark..."
  "What question mark?"
  "The symbol, the question mark, like at the end of the sentence it's a question."
  "Like in grammar?"
  "Yeah. It was originally a hieroglyphic symbol which came from the view of the ass of a cat as it's walking away from you."
  "Explain."
  "Well, because when a cat walks away from you, you feel insecure; you're unsure of yourself, it's doubt..."
  "I see. A question mark. You mean, like, the thing, the tail..."
  "Yeah,you look at it, you see the tail."
  "And then the pffft. Pop. The a-hole."
  "The asshole."

  $5 a Day is a pleasant enough little film about a strained father/son relationship. The father's a bit of a…

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  Review by Lebowskidoo 🇨🇦 🎬 🍿 ★★★★

  A dying con man and his recently fired ex-con son go on a road trip from Atlantic City to New Mexico in search of a potential cure.

  Christopher Walken is clearly having a great time in this role and his charms are hard to resist. Alessandro Nivola has to play it mostly straight-faced as the exasperated son. Sharon Stone is having fun too, showing up halfway through as a sun-damaged floozie. It's a fun and sometimes touching tale.

  Best Bit: Alessandro Nivola goes to Christopher Walken's hairdresser and comes out with his exact same hairstyle.

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  Review by ExistentialJeny ★★★½

  A story about a father & son. Christopher Walken is such a great actor.

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  Review by OvW ★★½

  The movie is as boring as the promotional vehicle. Christopher Walken is always watchable, and his performance kept me from switching this off. Sharon Stone appears to be in the car with father & son, but in the movie she isn't. I found this highly annoying.

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  Review by lanasdolly sofia ♱ ★★

  did not have a care for this film

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  Review by Riley Kirby ★½

  I didn't care about anything in this movie

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  Review by Hank Bauer ★½

  Y’know it’s a good sign when you watch a movie none of your mutuals have listed as watched/watchlisted. While $5 a Day was rather mediocre, I don’t regret watching it. It’s one of the slowest paced dramcoms out there, with a Barry Sonnenfeld score (good) and a lot of awful “father/son” relationship moments and random IHOP sponsorships (bad). 

  The father-son dynamic here feels so weak. Two ex-criminals, who aren’t that funny, one’s dying, they talk about having erectile dysfunction together, they skinny dip with each other at the end of the movie, Y’know, stuff you do with your dad. There’s a few good Christopher Walken spasms during the film, but they’re few and in between. This was a comfy Sunday morning…

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  Review by Beautifulkiller ★★★★½

  Christopher Walken and Alessandro Nivola, along with Amanda Peet and Sharon Stone, star in "$5 a Day," an independent film from 2008.

  In L.A., Flynn Parker's (Nivola) job as a health inspector comes to an end when it's learned he spent some time in prison. At the same time, his girlfriend Maggie (Amanda Peet) moves out on him because he's a liar and doesn't tell her anything.

  Meanwhile his father, Nat (Walken) asks Flynn to come to Atlantic City. The two are estranged, but Flynn goes. Nat, a con artist who is responsible for Flynn going to prison, tells his son he's dying. He wants Flynn to take him to New Mexico so he can try an experimental treatment.

  Begrudgingly,…

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  Review by Waiching Liu ★

  A waste of a cast and potential of a premise, $5 A Day is a confusing movie with an incohesive narrative that wanders all over the place, thus squandering the talents of Christopher Walken & Sharon Stone and which doesn't manage to reach a foregone conclusion. There is just not enough here that makes it virtually redeemable as not only is it formulaic, it takes what at first sounds like an interesting idea, but the execution of it is just utterly tepid and bland.

  Richie is a successful man, who just broke up with his girlfriend and of whom is fired from his job as a health inspector. He learns his father, Nat has a brain tumour and he wants to…

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  Review by Joshua Drake ★★★

  Not a bad watch despite some of the issues here with some of the characters, some writing and the directing but the good things here are here with a good cast such as Alessandra Nivola and Sharon Stone. Also Amanda Peet does good in a small role.

  Grade: Highly Recommend

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  Review by Scott Audetat ★★★½

  This was a pretty good Father/Son road trip film I found at Dollar Tree. I might even actually keep this one.

  Basically, Nivola has just lost his job and his girlfriend, Peet, has left him. While he's been avoiding his father for some time, with his newfound free time, he goes back home as his father has some big news...he's dying.

  So they agree to do one last road trip to all their old favorite places, maybe see a few friends, before he passes. Walken is quite fun as the father in a more laid back role than you'd expect from him.

  And di I mention the father is cheap? He claims he has been living on $5 a day…