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Mad Money (2008)

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Reviews Counted: 99

Fresh: 22

Rotten:77

Average Rating: 4.5/10

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual material and language, and brief drug references.

Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jan 18, 2008 Wide

Box Office: $20,536,106

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

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May 13, 2008

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  • Academy Award® winner Diane Keaton, Academy Award® nominee Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes are all in for the crime of their lives! Deep inside the most secure bank in America, three desperate women from very different worlds cook up the most unlikely heist of the century: Smuggle out millions of dollars in worn-out currency headed for a Federal Reserve shredder every day. Taking the cash is going to be easy… but getting away with it will be insane! Ted Danson, Christopher McDonald (HAPPY GILMORE), Roger Cross (24) and Stephen Root (OFFICE SPACE) co-star in this wild comedy caper from the creator of THELMA & LOUISE about chasing your dreams, beating the system and paying the price for MAD MONEY!
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    Full Review Source: JoBlo's Movie Emporium | comment Comment
    02/27/09
    Chris Bumbray
    JoBlo's Movie Emporium

    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.

    Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
    11/21/08
    Louise Keller
    Urban Cinefile
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    Full Review Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch | comment Comment
    10/18/08
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch

    Keaton, Latifah and Holmes have appealing chemistry, although it's not enough to sustain a too-long 104 minute running time.

    Full Review Source: Screen International | comment Comment
    10/18/08
    Mike Goodridge
    Screen International

    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.

    Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
    05/16/08
    Prairie Miller
    NewsBlaze

    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.

    Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
    05/16/08
    Kam Williams
    NewsBlaze

    [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.

    Full Review Source: MSNBC | comment Comment
    05/01/08
    Alonso Duralde
    MSNBC

    Khouri parece ter deixado no passado qualquer interesse em criar personagens tridimensionais ou minimamente interessantes.

    Full Review Source: Cinema em Cena | comment Comment
    04/04/08
    Pablo Villaca
    Cinema em Cena

    Comedy is difficult, but it seems like Mad Money didn't even try. It's very hard to find the jokes.

    Full Review Source: Daily Herald (IL) | comment Comment
    03/04/08
    Jeff Bayer
    Daily Herald (IL)

    Keaton and Latifah lend enough intelligence, wit, and charm to their characters that Mad Money often feels like an ovarian Ocean's Eleven.

    Full Review Source: Let's Not Listen | comment Comment
    02/29/08
    Tricia Olszewski
    Let's Not Listen

    'Mad Money' really isn't worth yours.

    Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment Comment
    02/24/08
    Linda Cook
    Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

    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)

    Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses | comment Comment
    02/03/08
    Joseph Proimakis
    Movies for the Masses

    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.

    Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
    02/01/08
    Ron Wilkinson
    Monsters and Critics

    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.

    Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
    02/01/08
    Josh Rosenblatt
    Austin Chronicle

    "Ocean's Eleven" if it were geared to the drones at the Oprah Winfrey book club...

    Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
    02/01/08
    Felix Vasquez Jr.
    Cinema Crazed

    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.

    Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
    01/24/08
    Amy Nicholson
    Boxoffice Magazine

    While being a serviceable, somewhat female-empowering bank-heist comedy, Mad Money doesn't do much else to distinguish itself.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
    01/24/08
    Kit Bowen
    Hollywood.com

    [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...

    Full Review Source: Flick Filosopher | comment Comment
    01/23/08
    MaryAnn Johanson
    Flick Filosopher

    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.)

    Full Review Source: Wall Street Journal | comment Comment
    01/23/08
    Joe Morgenstern
    Wall Street Journal
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    Pretty much a painless exercise in mediocrity -- nothing more.

    Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
    01/23/08
    Ken Hanke
    Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
     
     
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