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Mad Money (2008)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:8

Rotten:21

Average Rating:4.6/10

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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  • 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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    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
    Joe Morgenstern
    Wall Street Journal
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    It’s better than I expected it to be.

    Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
    01/22/08
    Richard Roeper
    Richard Roeper
    Ebert & Roeper
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    This movie is designed to be fun, and its intentions are signaled to us over and over again, as when the women jump around on a bed, giggling and flinging old, dirty money around in a wanton display of pure idiocy.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Stephanie Zacharek
    Salon.com
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    Speaking of recycling, this script by Glenn Gers reeks of it and not in a healthy, eco-minded way.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Michael Phillips
    Michael Phillips
    Chicago Tribune
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    Moviegoers will come up empty.

    Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Claudia Puig
    Claudia Puig
    USA Today
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    It's not that much fun.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Ann Hornaday
    Ann Hornaday
    Washington Post
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    Mad Money is small change that somehow manages to add up to a satisfying sum.

    Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Peter Howell
    Peter Howell
    Toronto Star
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    It's just OK, one of those decent little movies that get released in January.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Mick LaSalle
    Mick LaSalle
    San Francisco Chronicle
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    Holmes, with Alice Cooper hair and crazy Jim Carrey eyes, looks terrible and acts worse, unless this movie is unintentionally a lobotomy documentary. Whatever could have happened to her in the last couple of years to zap the talent out of her like this?

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Kyle Smith
    Kyle Smith
    New York Post
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    When someone takes our money without offering much in return, don't we have every right to get mad?

    Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Elizabeth Weitzman
    Elizabeth Weitzman
    New York Daily News
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    This leap might be a bit easier to take if the robbers involved weren't all straight from the female stereotype handbook. And if any of their male companions were given an ounce of credibility.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Tom Long
    Tom Long
    Detroit News
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    Leaves one pondering the ways audiences abet amorality tales.

    Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Lisa Kennedy
    Lisa Kennedy
    Denver Post
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    he stars phone in their expected personas (Keaton testy, Latifah earthy), except for Holmes, who's unconvincing as a gum-chewing trailer babe.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    J. R. Jones
    J. R. Jones
    Chicago Reader
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    This movie scared me. What is it saying about us? This is basically a bunch of rich people celebrating pathological greed. There's nothing satirical about the film.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Wesley Morris
    Wesley Morris
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    This movie is awkwardly structured.

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    01/18/08
    Stephen Holden
    Stephen Holden
    New York Times
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    A likable and completely dispensable heist film.

    Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Carrie Rickey
    Carrie Rickey
    Philadelphia Inquirer
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    The pocketing of tired bills headed for the shredder, the producing of tired movies headed for the theatre -- it's all just recycling.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Rick Groen
    Rick Groen
    Globe and Mail
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    There is little suspense, no true danger; their plan is simple, the complications are few, and they don't get excited much beyond some high-fives and hugs and giggles.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
    01/18/08
    Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert
    Chicago Sun-Times
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    Mad Money is a heist comedy that doesn't rip off the audience.

    Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
    01/17/08
    Colin Covert
    Colin Covert
    Minneapolis Star Tribune
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    Mad Money strains desperately for laughs.

    Full Review Source: Associated Press | comment Comment
    01/17/08
    Christy Lemire
    Christy Lemire
    Associated Press
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