Mad Money is a 2008 American crime comedy film starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes, and directed by Callie Khouri. Loosely based on the 2001 2001 film Hot Money .
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Plot
The film begins in media res , with the suspect being caught and interrogated. Then blinked back to three years earlier and the film continued to advance from there, interspersed with small pieces of interrogation.
Three years before being caught, Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable middle-class life until her husband Don Cardigan (Ted Danson) was "degraded" from her position and immersed in debt. Salary for Selina, house cleaner, bounced again. Selina confronts Bridget and advises her to take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
On her first day at work, Bridget hatches a scheme to steal an obsolete dollar bill that is scheduled to be destroyed. For his team, he chose Nina (Queen Latifah), who works with the dollar crusher, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), who takes the cable car from the Secret Service room to the chute. It takes some work to persuade Nina to join, but Jackie joins them quickly.
The plan is that in the Secret Service room, Bridget will replace the official Master-brand train key with the same lock that he bought at Home Depot. Bridget will tell Jackie the cart number and give her the official key. When Jackie gets the chosen basket, he throws some bills out of the basket into the trash before taking the train to Nina, who then uses the Bridget key to unlock it and returns the official key, and then proceeds to tear off the rest of the bill. Meanwhile, Bridget, in her cleaning duties, takes the money thrown out of the trash and divides it between Nina and Jackie in the ladies' room.
Their first foray was successful even though the taking was not as great as they had hoped. However, they dare to do it repeatedly. After Don and Bridget settle their debts, Don suggests they stop before they are caught. Bridget rejects this idea and persuades Nina and Jackie to keep going. They were almost caught but they eventually cut off Barry (Roger Cross), one of the security guards, who was attracted to Nina.
A Federal Bank Inspector showed up at a party at Bridget's house, and the next day Bridget saw him at work. The examiner faces Glover (Stephen Root), who is unwilling to be a professional pride to admit anyone has stolen a bill from his bank. It was told, that evening, Bridget and his minions began trying to get rid of all the stolen goods stored in their homes, but the police moved before all the evidence was destroyed. Bridget escaped but the others were caught.
Bridget hired a tax lawyer to defend them. Lawyers get Bridget and all his minions for their crimes, because neither law enforcement nor testers can prove that large cash deposits in their homes are from the Federal Reserve Bank. Technically, it is not illegal to have several hundred thousand dollars of cash lying in private residences. However, they spend large amounts of money stolen to buy expensive items and repairs in their homes, and do not pay taxes to them because they can not justify income. The IRS demanded that they pay their taxes, which turned out to be the same amount of money left.
Eight months later, Bridget revealed to Nina and Jackie that she had saved a lot of money stolen in the basement of a friend's bar.
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Cast
- Diane Keaton as Bridget Cardigan
- Queen Latifah as Nina Brewster
- Katie Holmes as Jackie Truman
- Ted Danson as Don Cardigan
- Roger Cross as Barry
- Adam Rothenberg as Bob Truman
- Stephen Root as Glover
- J. C. MacKenzie as Mandelbrot
- Christopher McDonald as Bryce Arbogast
- Finesse Mitchell as Shaun
- Bryan Massey as Detective Brinkley
U.k. original
The original English version produced by Granada Television, Hot Money (2001), tells the story of three women, Bridget, Liz and Jackie, who embarked on a plan to steal thousands of pounds of paper money matured at the Bank's burning mill of England at Essex. It's a fictional tale about Loughton incinerator thieves.
Release
Mad Money was released on DVD May 13, 2008. In DVD director's comment, director Callie Khouri praised producer Jay Cohen for bringing him an English movie that he earned his right to be called Hot Money.
Hot Money is based on the true story of a group of women working in the Bank of England and, during an unknown period, releases an unknown amount of money that should have been destroyed. No one but these women knew the exact details of the theft. Callie Khouri and Jay Cohen worked for 5 years to bring the American version of Hot Money that was deliberately made to the screen as Mad Money using various authors. Both Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah stuck to the beginning of the project and the author began designing special characters around two actresses.
Reception
box office
The film debuted in fifth place at the box office on its opening day in the United States, with a return of US $ 2.3 million from 2,470 screens. Reuters refers to this return as a "simple" result for the opening day of the movie. On its opening weekend, Mad Money has slipped to seventh place, with weekend taking $ 7.7 million. Writing for Rotten Tomatoes, Gitesh Pandya notes that the opening weekend per theater income is "average not so impressive $ 3,126." amNewYork called the opening weekend of the film "failed big at the box office," and the New Zealand Herald described it as a "box-office failure." Richard Johnson of the New York Post wrote that the movie "was bombed, debuting in severe seventh place on the box-office ladder." The four-day filming was a sad $ 9.2 million. The film also did not go well in its release in other countries, and Conor Bresnan of Box Office Mojo reported that "Mad Money was bombed in its first two markets" abroad. With an estimated budget of $ 22 million, the film has been damaged even at that time coming from the cinema.
Critical reception
Rotten Tomatoes, review reviewers, reported that 22% of the 105 critics surveyed gave the film a positive review; the average value is 4.4/10. The critical consensus of the website reads: "The film of the robbers is exhausting, not funny, and unreasonable." At Metacritic, the film has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 31 critics, showing "mixed or average review".
Roger Ebert gave the movie a rating of one and a half stars, and wrote, "The point is, some girls will love it, the men are not so much." The film also received one and a half stars in a review at the Chicago Tribune, and Michael Phillips wrote that the film's actor is not to blame: "Do not blame the players, the players are games, the visual schemes are bleak, , incorporating unhealthy with pokey, irritating rhythms from the theft scene, and while I'm not a medical doctor or a screenwriter, it seems the film could use some of its top. "
The film received three stars on Newsday , and Jan Stuart wrote "Mad Money is not Rififi , but Khouri and Gers invested it with individuality and generosity the spirit that lifted him into a world of sinless pleasure. "Bill Wine of All Headline News gave the film two and a half stars, writing" Mad Money is light and lively, technology. Do not expect big laughs, but at least you can put it on top of it to hold your interest. " The Canadian Press gave the movie one and a half stars, and criticized the performance of Katie Holmes" While Keaton has been doing a funny thing and well, and he and Latifah have an interesting personality contrast, Holmes's presence feels like an afterthought. "The New York Post The New York Times and Variety also criticized the performance of Katie Holmes in the film, and The New York Times called Holm ice "film's weakest link."
In an article in the Boston Herald, titled "Do not waste your crazy money on a bad comedy", Stephen Schaefer gives the movie a "C" rating, writes "Even with the legendary stage center of Diane Keaton, Mad Money failed to achieve the intoxicating and intoxicating comedy stratosphere. "The film received a critical review from Claudia Puig at USA Today " This life -less comedy and uncertain caper feels as though it were assembled together at a seminar on the diversity of compulsory awareness in the studio. "
The film earned third place in 10 of the worst films of the series New York Post ' in 2008.
References
External links
- Official site
- Crazy Money on IMDb
- Crazy Money at Rotten Tomatoes My Answer
- Crazy Money in Metacritic
- Crazy Money at Mojo Box Office
- Crazy Money at AllMovie
- Hot Money (UK version) on IMDb
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