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Where the Money Is (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 71 Fresh: 31  Rotten:40 Average Rating: 5.3/10
 
Consensus: The acting in Where the Money Is is excellent. However, the movie feels like a made-for-TV movie that's plain and forgettable.
 

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Runtime: 89 mins

Synopsis: Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own. Screen legend Paul Newman stars as... Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.

Screen legend Paul Newman stars as Henry, and Linda Fiorentino stars as Carol, in Where the Money Is, a spirited new caper movie. Dermot Mulroney plays Carol's husband Wayne.

When the prison guards deliver Henry to the nursing home, Carol is immediately intrigued. After all, he was a famous bank robber; his life had all the mystery and fun that hers lacks. She hungers for excitement: she is bored with her job, her glory days as prom queen are long past, and Wayne (her onetime prom king) just marks time on his night-shift job.

While Henry seems feeble and helpless, Carol suspects otherwise. Still, she can't quite prove that he's playing possum. She gets more and more frustrated until finally she goes to some very outrageous lengths to smoke him out. It's not that she wants to turn him in. Instead, she asks him if he might do her a favor in return for her silence: teach her his old line of work, and then join her and her husband Wayne in a robbery of their own. But Henry has long since learned not to let his guard down, even for a minute. Especially when it comes to finding Where the Money Is…

Gramercy Pictures presents, in association with Intermedia Films and Pacifica Film Distribution, A Scott Free/IMF Production. A Film by Marek Kanievska. Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney. Where the Money Is. Casting by Randi Hiller, C.S.A. Music by Mark Isham. Costume Designer, Francesca Chamberland. Edited by Sam Craven, Garth Craven, Dan Lebental. Production Designer, Andre Chamberland. Director of Photography, Thomas Burstyn, C.S.C. Co-Producer, Beau E. L. Marks. Executive Producers, Tony Scott, Guy East, Nigel Sinclair, Chris Sievernich, Moritz Borman. Produced by Ridley Scott, Charles Weinstock, Chris Zarpas, Christopher Dorr. Story by E. Max Frye. Screenplay by E. Max Frye and Topper Lilien & Carroll Cartwright. Directed by Marek Kanievska. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Susan Barnes, Anne Pitoniak

Director: Marek Kanievska
Screenwriter: E. Max Frye, Topper Lilien, Carroll Cartwright
Story: E. Max Frye
Producer: Ridley Scott, Charles Weinstock, Chris Zarpas
Composer: Mark Isham

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Jul 12, 2001

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The money of the film's title should refer to Paul Newman, because the actor's presence elevates this routine caper into a pleasantly bankable diversion.

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Newman and Fiorentino steal cash -- and scenes -- in amiable heist comedy.

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A sly, smooth, extremely enjoyable caper... full of scenes you want to get lost in.

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For its first half this plays like a character-driven, antiestablishment caper of the 1960s and '70s. As the story progresses, the characters turn rotten. When the establishment is more appealing than the maverick heroes, something has gone wrong.

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Jeffrey Westhoff
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USA Films and director Marek Kanievska should be congratulated. They've done what thirty-odd years and countless films couldn't: make Paul Newman uninteresting.

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The film misfires because of its weak script, lack of punch to its comedy, and the plot was too incredible to believe or become absorbed in.

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