Mad Money | Ted Danson, Queen Latifah | A different sort of film

Mad Money | Ted Danson, Queen Latifah | Can't get any madder than that

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Mad Money

	Mad Money Ted Danson, Queen Latifah Anchor Bay - ITN, 2008 average customer review:based on 86 reviews view larger image
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A different sort of film

This is a rare movie, where some of our favorite actors are involved in less than desired activities, and yet we found ourselves rooting for them. The movie is about three women in difficult situations, needing money and a change of perspective for their families.

Ted Danson delivers a great performance as the unemployed husband of Bridget, who not only lost his highly paid executive job, but is now depressed and confronting reality for at his age, he no longer feels confident enough to start again.

The three women work at what looks like Fort Knox, where money is disposed off by banks because it becomes too old to circulate. They simply shred millions every day. To support her family, Bridget, played by Diane Keaton, comes up with a rather ingenious plot that is both fun and believable.

In order to be successful in her plan to steal lots of money, Bridget enlists others. Nina, played by Queen Latifah, and Jackie, superbly played by Katie Holmes, become the other two in this trio of thieves. We found ourselves laughing, enjoying the suspense, and hoping that they get away with their creative money recycling business.

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Can't get any madder than that

Great story based partially on fact. Keaton, Danson, Holmes, Latifah, how could you go wrong.

Cool Sunday Flick

It was a good movie I would definetly recommend it. It was funny and Diane Keanton was totally funny as she played a crimal minded housewife. Definetly check this movie out.

Stealing Home

*Some Spoilers*

"Mad Money" is what "Fun With Dick and Jane" might have been had it actually been FUN. This tale of three virtuous women who turn to a life of crime emerges as one of the better screwball comedies of recent vintage, thanks to a clever, snappy script by Glenn Kers, lively direction by Callie Khouri, and mega-delightful performances by Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Adam Rothenberg and Stephen Root.

Keaton, who has rarely been better, plays Bridget Cardigan, an upper-middle class housewife whose husband (Danson) is suddenly laid off as a result of corporate downsizing. When she lands a job as janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, she devises a scheme to steal some of the cash that has already been earmarked for destruction. To accomplish her goal, she enlists the aid of two of the women who work there (Latifah and Holmes) who are also having trouble making ends meet.

Out of this rather dubious premise, the filmmakers have spun pure comic gold, providing us with one hilarious scene after another as the women go from law-abiding citizens to master thieves to incarcerated suspects in the course of the story. There are subtle little jabs at consumerism and the lure of the American dream along the way, but this is primarily a sharp, witty and sublimely silly spoof on all those innumerable heist pictures that have come our way over the years (I suggest we simply think of this as "Ocean`s 14" and have done with it). Khouri never lets up on the pace, and the sheer joy the actors take in playing these roles spills off the screen and onto the audience.

The denouement could probably stand a little tweaking, but for once, a "feel-good movie" actually lives up to that title.

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Surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

This isn't the type of movie I gravitate toward typically, but I must say that this is a very enjoyable comedy. There was a certain chemistry between Diane Keaton (who I mainly remember from the classic Woody Allen movies of the 1970's), Quee Latifah, and Katie Holmes, who is simply adorable.

I found the concept of three women working at a Federal Reserve bank and trying to sneak worn out money out of it during the disposal process to be a great setting for a comedy. Though having seen it once, I really don't care if I never see it again, which accounts for my strictly "average" review. This ain't "Ferris Buehler's Day Off" funny, just sort of funny.

I couldn't find any subtitles (which are handy for me even though I'm not hearing impared since often I watch movies late at night and I don't want to wake up others and I really don't like headphones) or bonus features. I thought the closing credits were sort of cool.

So, a bare-bones release of a decent (not rolling in the isles or vulgar) comedy. If you've got "mad money" to spend on DVDs, you could do worse than this one.

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