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18 January 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
They're having the crime of their lives... morePlot:
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed. | full synopsisNewsDesk:
(54 articles)
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Interesting Idea for a Financial Stimulus Package moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Diane Keaton | ... | Bridget Cardigan | |
| Ted Danson | ... | Don Cardigan | |
| Katie Holmes | ... | Jackie Truman | |
| Adam Rothenberg | ... | Bob Truman | |
| Queen Latifah | ... | Nina Brewster | |
| Peyton 'Alex' Smith | ... | Older Dante (as Peyton Smith) | |
| Charlie Caldwell | ... | Cop #1 | |
| Richard F Law | ... | Cop #2 (as Richard Law) | |
| Meagen Fay | ... | Mindy Arbogast | |
| Christopher McDonald | ... | Bryce Arbogast (as Chris McDonald) | |
| Denise Lee | ... | Counselor | |
| Sylvia Castro Galan | ... | Selina | |
| Morgana Shaw | ... | Molly | |
| Roger R. Cross | ... | Barry (as Roger Cross) | |
| Stephen Root | ... | Glover |
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Rated PG-13 for sexual material and language, and brief drug references.Parents Guide:
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104 minCountry:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
USA:PG-13 | Canada:PG (British Columbia/Ontario) | Malaysia:U | Singapore:PG | Brazil:10 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | UK:12 | Argentina:13Fun Stuff
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The stock ticker at the bottom of the screen during "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer" mentions Stark Industries, the fictional company owned by Tony Stark in Iron Man (2008). Iron Man was released four-and-a-half months after Mad Money and also features a segment from "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer".. moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Jackie Truman (Holmes) is doing the "go gesture" (wiping her eyebrow,) she appears to be doing it with two fingers, but then in the next shot she is doing it with one. moreQuotes:
[from trailer]Nina Brewster: Do you know what it is when you trade sex for money?
Jackie Truman: Advertising!
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"Mad Money" has reasonable entertainment value, great characters, and even a nice little unexpected twist at the end to satisfy the escapist movie-goer. The essential plot of Mad Money is not that original as heist movies go. The formula usually goes something like this: the characters are in a bad financial or similar situation, they find out about some booty supposedly completely unobtainable, devise a scheme to lift the booty which has some intriguing element(s) to it, and then go about getting the booty. Along the way there are some twists and turns to keep it interesting. If it's too easy, it won't work. Part of the fun is whether or not they will get away with it, and how they will do it. Heist movies are almost a dime a dozen these days, with fair such as "Oceans 11" (both the old and the new versions), its subsequent sequels, "Heist", "The Score", etc.
What gives "Mad Money" a unique flavor is the characters who enact the heist, essentially the Neapolitan kind: vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Most Hollywood heist movies star middle-aged men devising elaborate schemes requiring PhD's to perpetrate the heist. In "Mad Money", the team of schemers are three women working at below-sea-level jobs at the Federal Reserve building: a white grandmother of the upper middle-class variety (Diane Keaton), a middle-aged African-American single mother trying to stay above water (Queen Latifah, who actually stuffs packs of bills into a large shredding machine), and Katie Holmes as a 20-something scatter-brain who will probably lose the better part of her hearing by movie's end. How Holmes ever landed a position at the Federal Reserve is one of the many intriguing mysteries of the movie. A rather unlikely swashbuckling gang of hoodlums who sport wash cloths and garbage bags instead of swords.
Keaton and Latifah have the most at stake in their interesting idea for a financial stimulus package: to lift ragged and torn bills from the Federal Reserve before they are about to be shredded. In other words, stealing money that really isn't money. However, I wouldn't try this at home. Year-round, the Federal Reserve acquires tons and tons of ragged and worn bills from banks and other large financial institutions and swaps them for new crisp clean bills. The ragged bills go by way of the shredding and pulping machines.
How they pull off the heist sort of works, although it does fray into a little bit of the fantastic as stealing from a Federal Governmental agency like the Federal Reserve is sort of akin to trying to raise the Titanic. It probably ain't gonna happen. However, a unique chemistry between the actors somehow makes the movie work, and the writers took the story seriously enough to give a lot of unexpected laughs, the way comedies of this type should be written. In other words, luckily the writers didn't try to make the movie "funny".
On a final note, the outstanding talent of the cast has to be Queen Latifah who does an excellent job of portraying a single mom who wants the booty but has ambivalence about the entire scheme. In fact the entire cast is excellent, with Diane Keaton believable as the guiding force behind the heist, and Ted Danson as her bewildered husband. My only criticism is that I would have liked a little more of a hint regarding the twist at the end which did come out of left field. Enjoyable and worth the price of admission, although I doubt I will shell out another 20 bucks for the DVD.