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Based on the animated short film A BUCK’S WORTH, this ambitious stop-motion animated feature takes on the not-so-bargain-bin topic of the meaning of life. Various lives intersect in an apartment complex. A Dear John loser. An unemployed, master cook do-gooder. A lonely old man. A young boy saving for a toy. A hallucinating man-boy. A ladies-man repo man. A supermodel. A suicidal homeless angel. You know the typical characters in an animated feature.

Starting the feature like the short film (which can be viewed on AWNtv), Jim Peck (Anthony LaPaglia, TV’s WITHOUT A TRACE) has an unsettling run-in with a homeless man (Geoffrey Rush, SHINE), who later sprouts wings and moves into the house of lonely widow Albert (Barry Otto, STRICTLY BALLROOM), who is so desperate for human interaction that he gets excited when telemarketers call. Depressed after his encounter with the homeless man, Jim puts more pressure on his do-gooder son Dave (Samuel Johnson, TV’s THE SECRET LIFE OF US) to try working with his brother Lenny (Ben Mendelsohn, AUSTRALIA). The problem is that nice-guy Dave isn’t cut out for the repo business. He’s more interested in finding the answers to life from a book priced at $9.99.

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