Five Dollars a Day
Five Dollars a Day also spelled asa Day is a drama directed by Nigel Cole, produced by Capitol Films subsidiary ThinkFilm and starring Christopher Walken, Alessandro Nivola, Amanda Peet, and Sharon Stone. The project dates back to 2003 when Nick Cassavetes had signed on to direct, but a year later was replaced by John Curran. Three years later Nigel Cole is sitting in the directors chair. It premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival.
After their first stop to eat at an IHOP restaurant for free by Nat convincing them its his birthday using a fake drivers license which Nat continues to do at other IHOPs along the way, they stop at a vacant house that is for sale to spend the night, and narrowly avoid being found out by a realtor and some people looking at the home the following morning. The next day over a stolen room service meal from a motel, Ritchie finds out that Nat got him fired by telling his boss of an earlier jail sentence, which is later revealed that Ritchie took the fall for to keep Nat from going to jail for one of his crimes. This almost makes Ritchie abandon the trip. They proceed to drive to various cities, once staying at an open house for a retirement village. They then go to Amarillo, Texas where they meet up with Ritchies old babysitter, Dolores Sharon Stone, who is now a professional model Nat has a thing for.They then head to New Mexico so that Nat can collect a small sum of money from an old rival, Kruger Peter Coyote, whom Nat lent money to start a used car dealership many years back, and whom Ritchies mother later ran off with when he was young. Kruger, now owner of a hugely successful chain of car dealerships, and a well established member of the community with wife and family, agrees to give Nat a large sum of quiet money so that Nat does not upset Krugers plans to run for mayor by embarrassing Kruger regarding Ritchies paternity. ........
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