Five Dollars A Day – 5$ a Day

TIFF Review from the Star: WORTH EVERY PENNY: We've been on the hunt for this TIFF's Little Miss Sunshine or Juno, and Christopher Walken 's pitch-perfect turn as Nat, an aging hustler seeking to reunite with his son Flynn (Alessandro Nivola) on a cross-country road trip, brings the same kind of quirky humour thanks to a smart script in $5 a Day, plus the drama of healing wounded relationships.

Walken has every angle covered to make good on his boast he can live on $5 a day – from the pink Sweet `N' Low car and gas for a year he won in a contest, to a raft of fake IDs to ensure a free meal on his birthday at every IHOP. What Nat can't hustle, he steals, all done with astonishing bravado. But Nat's biggest-stakes score – repairing his fractured relationship with Flynn – may elude him.