Three Dollars / The Bank / The Boys (5 Disc Box Set)

This special edition five disc set brings together three of the great Australian films of recent times: THE BOYS, THE BANK and THREE DOLLARS. Starring a host of exemplary Australian actors, and including a specially-created extra disc discussing the common themes of these three landmark films in an insightful documentary from producer/director Robert Connolly, this box set exemplifies the best contemporary Australian cinema has to offer.

Three Dollars:
The story of Eddie (David Wenham), an honest, compassionate man who finds himself with a wife, a child, and three dollars. Eddie’s world revolves around the three women in his life: his brilliant wife Tanya (Frances O’Connor), a passionate academic, their six year old daughter Abby (Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik), who heightens the stakes on every decision Eddie makes, and his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful, privileged Amanda (Sarah Wynter), who re-appears in his life with mathematical 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 blend of self-depreciating 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.

The Bank:
The potential of Jim's software fires the imagination and greed of Simon O'Reilly (Anthony La Paglia), the CEO of Centrebank. O'Reilly's freewheeling management style and negative performances are under attack by his Board. He's looking for the magic bullet to save his skin. O'Reilly lures Jim to work for Centrebank. With endless money and resources to play with, Jim perfects his theory. O'Reilly and the Bank's Board of Directors fall under the spell of his system and the wealth it could bring.

The Boys:
Brett Sprague returns to his family home after twelve months in jail. Things have changed while he has been away - his brother Glenn has moved out with his girlfriend Jackie, younger brother Stevie's pregnant girlfriend Nola now lives with the family, and his mother Sandra has taken on a Maori drifter. Re-united with his brothers, Brett uses his first day back to restore order. Based on Gordon Graham's award winning stageplay, THE BOYS is a powerful and disturbing portrait of three brothers and the women in their lives.