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I was expecting to start watching this movie then switch it off. Yes my expectations were low. However this little movie was great, not great art but a great pleasure to watch. I am no fan of any of the three leading actresses but they made this a joy to watch. Ted Danson (who I could never warm to in Cheers) impresses me with his timing and (in Damages) his acting talent. The story is simply told and is absorbing, entertaining and (unusually for a modern comedy) funny. Not uproariously but it made me smile on many occasions. The viewer cares about the characters and what happens to them and that is a testament to the writing and direction. It is not the best comedy I have ever seen nor the best heist movie but the sum is greater than the parts. Keaton was very good and Queen Latifah was terrific support. I recommend this for a pleasant way to pass an hour or so.

I'm sorry, I just couldn't get into it; let alone believe it could actually happen. Was not impressed much with the shallow ensemble. A female version of the OCEAN'S 11 franchise. Diane Keaton plays suburbanite Bridget Cardigan, whose husband Don(Ted Danson)loses his job and has spent a year without finding another one. Bridget, skilled in absolutely nothing, wrangles a job working maintenance at a Federal Reserve Bank, where she gets the cunning and dangerous idea of talking two other employees into stealing worn-out money ready for the shredder. So you have Nina(Queen Latifah),a single mother, and Jackie(Katie Holmes),a young free spirit, getting ready to pull off a heist with Bridget that will change all of their desperate and diverse lives. I have to admit that Holmes makes the movie interesting. Replace Keaton and Latifah with say maybe Charlize Theron and Catherine Zeta-Jones and you've got something to really watch. Now I guess I'm the one who is ridiculous. Also in MAD MONEY are: Stephen Root, Roger Cross and Christopher McDonald.

Mad Money was a pretty funny movie all together. The story to this movie was a little bit corny but funny at the same time. It was about three women trying to rob money from a place that they work at. The three women who are trying to rob the bank are Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes. I thought that they all did a pretty good job overall. Especially Queen Latifah who played her part very good. Diane Keaton did a pretty good job but not her best. I think she could have done a lot better. This was definitely not one of her better performances. Katie Homes did a so so job. The movie was trying to teach you that money does not buy you everything in life and that is true. Money can make and brake your life. That's what pretty much happens to the women in this movie they are either going to be rich or caught and broke and have nothing left in their life. The thing that stealing money can do to you is make you end up loosing your kids or your life. I thought that the women in this movie took the bank robbery way to far. They stole once and then wanted to keep going and going over again. Sooner or later you are bound to get caught. I think the movie could have been a little bit better by just having them rob it once and not for like three years. This was also a pretty cute movie with a couple of laughs. It would have been much better if it was just a tiny bit more realistic. I mean I wasn't expecting it to be realistic but the planning could've been better. They didn't plan the robbery out that much. They just went and rushed right into it. Overall this movie was pretty funny and had some cute scenes in it. I recommend this movie to anyone who likes comedy movie that have an unrealistic story.

I just came from the cinema and my jaws hurt from all that laughing. Amazing performance from everyone. The writing was good and even though it had the Fun with Dick and Jane approach in the beginning the film is more than enjoyable. Jokes are well crafted and you laugh constantly. It is a shame that people rated this so low. I was reluctant to see it because I checked the film here first. I am happy I ignored the low rating because it was worth the cinema ticket. Not the first time when the IMDb rating does not do justice to a film. If you are in a mood for a comedy on a Saturday night and fancy a good laugh, go see this one and you will not be disappointed.

It's rare I write a review of a movie having only seen less than 5 minutes of it. That's all I needed from this film. If your making a robbery movie it's a really bad idea to show your audience that the robbery has been successful in the opening scene. It's an even worse idea to then show your robbers destroying their ill gotten gains. It's also a really bad idea to make the film a retrospective so they tell you the end then go back in time. The basic premise sounded good. the cast looked half decent. The start ruined the film before it even got a chance to get itself established and I wasn't willing to watch any more of it. It might have gotten better but I highly doubt it. It needs a really bad film to annoy you so much you stop watching it in less than 5 minutes. That makes this film an all time record breaker. Most films I'm willing to go back and attempt to endure them. not this time. All thumbs down. Bad start ruined movie.

(Synopsis) Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) is a dedicated mother and corporate wife living in an upper middle class neighborhood when her husband Don (Ted Danson) is downsized from his job of 30 years. Don has been looking for a job for a whole year. With the threat of losing everything, Bridget must find a job. She has an English Lit degree, but no job experience. She finally takes the only job that she can find as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. The one-time corporate wife now works with Nina (Queen Latifah), a single mom with two kids who shreds old money, and Jackie (Katie Holmes), young, beautiful, and a little strange, who moves the money cart. Every day the bank shreds over a million dollars. Bridget begins to think of what she can do with some of that old money, and she comes up with a plan. Bridget needs Nina and Jackie for the plan to work. They all join forces and start taking home the money. These three women have pulled off the perfect crime. (My Comment) This movie is a good example of what three average women who have learned to work the system for their own advantage can do when they want something bad enough even though it is illegal. It also shows you what will eventually happen when you have enough money and should stop, but greed sets in. Diane Keaton was wonderful in her part as a stay at home wife who must get a job to survive. Life can be hard when the breadwinner losses his job. Everybody already knows that the difference between a bum and a respected person is a job. These three women had a job; however, they turned to the life of crime only to get what they did not earn. I know it is only a movie, but working for your money is important, especially since Nina had two kids at home. Queen Latifah's performance was convincing and at times touching. Katie Holmes' performance was funny, but a little unusual. It is an enjoyable movie, but you can wait for the DVD to come out. (Overturn Films, Run Time 1:44, Rated PG-13)(5/10)

Gabrielle Burton's Manna from Heaven (2002) is a cloying bit of larceny about old folks who pull a heist, so to speak. As bad as that allegedly funny comic caper is, Callie Khouri directs a caper headed by old folk Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) that makes Manna look smart. Mad Money, about three chicks who rip off the Federal Reserve, is a bankrupt comedy for which there was not a laugh for over an hour, and that's with an audience at a sneak preview, one of the easier groups to please. Diane Keaton shows no comedic skills beyond the lines Woody Allen has given her in previous movies long ago; Queen Latifa as single mama Nina Brewster has no range beyond the broad beam of her smile and her bod; Katie Holmes as daffy Jackie Truman is a much more successful wife of Tom Cruise. The only one with half-way funny lines is Ted Danson as Don Cardigan, but his perfect white-haired, brush-cut hairpiece distracts from his delivery. Mad Money appears in early January, an infamous graveyard for films studios know flat-out won't be successful but distribute to satisfy investors and actors that the film actually played theaters. I hope this film makes them money across the seas because stateside it would take a serious heist to make any money for this felonious assault on even the notoriously easy American audience.