IGN.com|AskMen.com|Rotten Tomatoes|GameSpy|FilePlanet|TeamXbox|CheatsCodesGuides|GameStats|Direct2Drive|Green Pixels
RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Great Big Gift Guide
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • The Vine
  • Forums
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches by subscribing to our Google Subscribed Links profile.
 
Movies / On DVD / Where the Money Is
Where the Money Is

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Email to a Friend
  • Add to List
  • Bookmark and Share
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon

Where the Money Is (2000)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
44 %
Tomatometer

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted: 72

Fresh: 32

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.

Runtime: 89 mins

Genre: Comedies

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... 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]

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

Starring: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Susan Barnes, Anne Pitoniak, Bruce MacVittie, Irma St. Paul, Michel Perron, Dorothy Gordon, Rita Tucket, Diane Amos, Dawn Ford, T.J. Kenneally, Roderick McLachlan, Bill Corday, Gordon McCall, Robert Brewster, Eric Hoziel

Director: Marek Kanievska

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

[See More Credits]

Get This Movie

  • Buy DVD
 
 
 
 
Release:

Dec 19, 2000

[DVD Details]
 
 

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Letterboxed - Anamorphic - 1.77

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.0 - English

Additional Release Material:

  • Original Theatrical Trailer

Interactive Features:

  • Scene Access
  • Interactive Menus

Reviews for Where the Money Is

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 >> >|
Arrange By: Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
08/07/08
Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion | comment Comment
07/24/06
Frank Swietek
One Guy's Opinion
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Houston Chronicle | comment Comment
07/21/05
Houston Chronicle
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Reeling Reviews | comment Comment
04/09/05
Robin Clifford
Reeling Reviews
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
04/25/03
Globe and Mail
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Film Quips Online | comment Comment
02/08/03
John R. McEwen
Film Quips Online
Ratings Image

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/08/02
Film Threat
Top Critic Icon Top Critic
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Sight and Sound | comment Comment
12/02/02
Kim Newman
Sight and Sound
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Pitch.com | comment Comment
11/12/02
Jon Niccum
Pitch.com
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Netflix | comment Comment
11/07/02
James Rocchi
Netflix
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Cincinnati Enquirer | comment Comment
10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer
Ratings Image

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

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
09/04/02
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
Ratings Image

For all the film's jauntiness (actually, because of it), it merely depresses.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
06/18/02
Eric Monder
Film Journal International
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | comment Comment
06/15/02
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Flipside Movie Emporium | comment Comment
10/24/01
Rob Vaux
Flipside Movie Emporium
Ratings Image

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.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
10/04/01
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ratings Image

Plodding, dull and endless at a short 89 minutes.

Full Review Source: culturevulture.net | comment Comment
03/18/01
Gary Mairs
culturevulture.net
1 - 20 (sorted by date)
Text View | 1 2 3 4 5 >> >|
See More Topics...

Related Forums for Where the Money Is

graded_card_sale
by: graded_card_sale 5/8/04
See All

More DVDs

Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 1 83% Tropic Thunder
FRESH: 2 96% WALL-E
FRESH: 3 89% Kung Fu Panda
FRESH: 4 88% Hellboy II: The Golden…
ROTTEN: 5 53% Get Smart

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
FRESH: 73 73% Wanted
FRESH: 66 66% Chronicles of Narnia: …
ROTTEN: 54 54% Step Brothers
ROTTEN: 32 32% The X-Files: I Want to Believe
ROTTEN: 38 38% The Longshots

More New Releases…

What’s Hot On RT

Total Recall

Total Recall

The most awkward movie Thanksgivings.

Twilight Quiz

Twilight Quiz

Twilight fans, test your movie knowledge!...

Holiday Preview

Holiday Preview

Read up on this season's biggest films!

Jason Statham

Jason Statham

Talking movies with the Transporter star. ...

More Info

RT To Go

Get this widget! Movie Reviews

Around The Network

  • Where the Money Is at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Where the Money Is at IGN
 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | ModCenter | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2008, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.