Mad Money

Name: Mad Money
Genre: Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Crime
Released: January 18, 2008
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 41
Cast: Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah

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Overture Films | Release Date: January 18, 2008 | PG-13

Starring: Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah

Summary: Bridget Cardigan is forced to get a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank after her corporate husband is downsized from his job. The one-time suburban mom soon discovers she has more in common with her new co-workers than she thought. She forges an unexpected bond with Nina, a hard-working single mom with two kids, and Jackie, anBridget Cardigan is forced to get a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank after her corporate husband is downsized from his job. The one-time suburban mom soon discovers she has more in common with her new co-workers than she thought. She forges an unexpected bond with Nina, a hard-working single mom with two kids, and Jackie, 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) … Expand

Director: Callie Khouri

Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Romance, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 104 min

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Owen Gleiberman

Latifah coasts on grit and verve, and Holmes has a goggle-eyed sweetness, but it's Keaton who rules. Read full review

Robert Wilonsky

While it's all so breezy and zippy and girl-power peppy, it's Keaton who makes Mad Money worth a few bucks. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

A caper comedy with some definite problems. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Mad Money is a comedy caper where the caper's not interesting and the comedy's not funny. Read full review

M. E. Russell

The movie is not so much horrible as it is drab -- from its lazy plotting to its uninspired yuks to its cop-out ending to its relentlessly yellow-brown sets. "Mad Money" does little more than take up space, and you will be two hours closer to the grave when you leave the theater. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

If the movie gets by, as it surely will during the current entertainment drought, most of the credit should go to a couple of performers (Latifah/Keaton) who come from different traditions, yet share a gift for breathing life into moribund material. Read full review

Kyle Smith

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? Read full review

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JoshW.

Jul 1, 2008

I had to write this after reading Conrad B.'s review. He is either suffering from weight issues or more likely, just doesn't get the fact that this is a MOVIE! If over weight people are offended then tough! Is it ok to make a film such as the Godfather trilogy without offending I had to write this after reading Conrad B.'s review. He is either suffering from weight issues or more likely, just doesn't get the fact that this is a MOVIE! If over weight people are offended then tough! Is it ok to make a film such as the Godfather trilogy without offending Italian Americans? Cinema is at it's best, an art form. So deal with it. Easily the best movie I've seen since Lost in Translation. But better. Some have complained that the silent picture start is better than the rest of the film, but consider how the two leads desires and motives affect the story while firmly being rooted in thei own motives. Brilliant. Not since Chaplin has a film been so pitch perfect in making a statement and touching hearts. This is the kind of film (art piece) that changes the world in it's wake.… Expand

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beingryanjude

Aug 28, 2014

Mad Money is harmless. Sure, Katie Holmes is awkward (I think they may have casted her precisely for that reason), but Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah create a fun environment to spend an hour and a half amidst.

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LiliS.

Jan 19, 2008

Awful is a compliment for this movie!

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