$9.99 (2008) poster
2008 · animation · drama

$9.99

Directed by Tatia Rosenthal1h 18m2008
ElsewhereIMDb6.74kRT72%Metacritic68TMDB5.997
  • sombre
  • inventive
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Sombre, steady, measured animation / drama, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Our read · $9.99 (2008) reads as a sombre, steady, surreal animation · drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want stop-motion animation meditating on ordinary lives and purpose.

ends bittersweetit stays with youmeditativegrips by minute 10attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if melancholy vignettes or claymation won't hold your attention.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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