Keaton, Latifah and Holmes have appealing chemistry, although it's not enough to sustain a too-long 104 minute running time.
Mad Money (2008)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:23
Rotten:77
Average Rating:4.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis:
Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton (Something’s Gotta Give), Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago)
and Katie Holmes (Thank You for Smoking) star in Mad Money, a comedy about three ordinary women...
Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton (Something’s Gotta Give), Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah (Chicago)
and Katie Holmes (Thank You for Smoking) star in Mad Money, a comedy about three ordinary women who form an unlikely friendship and decide to do something extraordinary—rob one of the most secure banks in the
world. Mad Money is directed by Academy Award® winner Callie Khouri (screenwriter of Thelma and Louise, director of Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), from a script by Glen Gers (Fracture).
Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is shocked to learn that she is on the verge of losing her home and comfortable upper middle class lifestyle when her husband Don (Ted Danson) is downsized from his job.
Armed only with a decades old English degree and years as a dedicated mother and corporate wife, Bridget is forced into the unfamiliar labor market with no job skills. Finally, she accepts the only position she can find— janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank.
The one-time suburban mom soon discovers she has more in common with her new co-workers than
she thought. Bridget forges an unexpected bond with Nina (Queen Latifah), a hard-working single mom with
two kids to raise, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), an exuberant free spirit with nothing to lose. Caught up in a system
that underestimates their talents and keeps their dreams just out of reach, Bridget, Nina and Jackie set out to
even the score.
After a lifetime of playing by the rules, the three devise a plan to smuggle soon-to-be destroyed currency
out of the supposedly airtight Reserve. As the unlikely crime syndicate amasses piles of cash, it looks like they
have pulled off the perfect crime—until a minor misstep alerts the authorities. With more money than they know
what to do with, the women are pushed to the limits of their ingenuity to stay one step ahead of the law! --© Overture Films
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Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson
Starring: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Christopher McDonald, Adam Rothenberg, Roger Cross
Director: Callie Khouri
Director: Callie Khouri
Screenwriter: Glenn Gers
Producer: Jay Cohen, Frank DeMartini, James Acheson, Michael Flannigan
Composer: Martin Davich, James Newton Howard
Studio: Overture
Reviews for Mad Money
A madcap heist movie with a delectable cast who realise that while money can't buy happiness, it sure as hell can buy everything else.
If you're thinking that there's not much point in rooting for these ballsy babes all the way because in the end crime doesn't pay, think again, sorta. Because even after they're caught, the fun is really just beginning.
Provided you can get past its improbable premise, this madcap crime caper's trio of talented leading ladies manage to provide enough moments of mirth to make the rest of this raucous romp worthwhile.
[T]he gap between [Thelma & Louise] and Mad Money resembles the abyss that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove into in Khouri's earlier hit.
Khouri parece ter deixado no passado qualquer interesse em criar personagens tridimensionais ou minimamente interessantes.
Comedy is difficult, but it seems like Mad Money didn't even try. It's very hard to find the jokes.
Keaton and Latifah lend enough intelligence, wit, and charm to their characters that Mad Money often feels like an ovarian Ocean's Eleven.
den einai toso kaki oso tha se boleye gia na glitoseis ti moyrmoyra an brethei omofyli ton protagonistrion na se faei na to deite (prosferetai gia ypohoriseis diladi)
A few badly conceived scenes and misused actors cannot completely negate the positive message of this situation comedy. Diane Keaton deserves better, but lives to laugh another day.
Just when I thought there was no way a movie like this could possibly show me anything new, Money goes and makes Ivan Boesky out of Annie Hall, paints redemption green, and paves the road to heaven with gold. Color me surprised.
"Ocean's Eleven" if it were geared to the drones at the Oprah Winfrey book club...
The latest vibrato performance of Diane Keaton's late career shame has her playing once-wealthy housewife Bridget Cardigan, whose twee name and dithering hysteria are equally insufferable.
While being a serviceable, somewhat female-empowering bank-heist comedy, Mad Money doesn't do much else to distinguish itself.
[W]orks... as bright, cheery, satisfying fantasy, if a mere trifle of a passing fancy. And it works, too, as a celebration of female don't-ignore-us indignation...
There's an old saying: 'I wrote you a long letter because I didn't have time to write a short one.' In the case of Mad Money, I'll write a short review because the movie won't sustain a long one. (It barely sustains itself.)
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