Trailer - Mad Money 2008

About the movie Mad Money 2008
The crime comedy Mad Money has just concluded its theatrical run, offering a lighthearted take on a high-stakes heist. Directed by Callie Khouri and written by Khouri and Glenn Gers, the film stars Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes as three female employees of the Federal Reserve who devise a plan to steal old money scheduled for destruction. Ted Danson and Roger Cross also feature in the cast. Produced by Millennium Films and distributed by Overture Films, this heist comedy aimed to deliver a fun and empowering caper. At the box office, Mad Money had a modest performance, struggling to gain significant traction despite its star power. Critical reception was largely negative. Professional film reviewers often found the plot unbelievable, the humor lacking, and the film's message muddled, despite some appreciation for the cast's efforts. IMDb user reviews were mixed, with some viewers enjoying the lighthearted premise and performances, while others agreed with the critics' assessment of its flaws. Below, you can watch the official Mad Money movie trailer.

Cast: Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Katie Holmes, Queen Latifah
Director: Callie Khouri

Sinopsis: Don and Bridget Cardigan's upper middle class lifestyle is threatened since Don, who has been out of work for a year, seems to have given up looking for a job, and housewife Bridget has been out of the workforce for most of her life. They are close to $300,000 in debt. Finding out this information, Bridget comes to the conclusion that she needs to get a job - any job - that at least provides them with some benefits. She reluctantly takes a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Almost immediately, Bridget is enthralled with all the old worn out money that is being shredded. She comes up with a plan to get her old lifestyle back by stealing much of that money, which she believes is an easy job since the locks used on the money carts are standard equipment and as she notices that no one ever checks the garbage as she goes about her work. Her plan needs the cooperation of one person who works the shredder and one person who pushes the carts of money. The two people she co-opts are single mom Nina Brewster and diabetic, trailer living and constant music listening Jackie Truman. Jackie is easy to convince, but Nina is only convinced when Bridget brings it to her attention that the money would allow her to provide a better education to her two bright sons. Nina vows to kill Bridget if she ever loses her children because of this scheme. As the three woman progress with the plan, it is threatened by: the bank's head of security, a man named Glover, who believes it is impossible to steal money from the reserve; another security guard at the reserve named Barry who seems to be attracted to Nina; Jackie's working class husband Bob who is not used to having money; Don, a conservative man who can't understand being on the wrong side of the law; and Bridget herself who seems to be increasingly focused on getting more and more money with no end in sight, which seems to be diverging from the priorities of her two accomplices.

Trailer - Mad Money



Plot
The film begins with the suspects getting caught and being interrogated. Then it flashes back three years earlier and the film continues forward from there, interspersed with occasional bits from the interrogation.

Three years before getting caught, Bridget Cardigan (Diane Keaton) lived a comfortable upper middle-class life until her husband Don Cardigan (Ted Danson) was "downsized" from his position and sank into debt. Salina, (Sylvia Castro Galan) the Cardigan's housekeeper, check has bounced once again. Selina confronts Bridget and suggests she take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.

On her first day on the job, Bridget hatches a scheme to steal worn-out dollar bills slated for destruction. For her team, she chooses Nina Brewster, (Queen Latifah) who works the dollar bill shredder, and Jackie Truman, (Katie Holmes), who takes bill carts from the Secret Service room to the shredding room. It takes some work to persuade Nina to join, but Jackie joins them quickly.

The plan is that in the Secret Service room, Bridget will switch a cart's official Master-brand lock with a nearly identical lock she purchased at Home Depot. Bridget will tell Jackie the cart number and give Nina the official lock. When Jackie gets the chosen cart, she dumps some bills from the cart into a trash can before taking the cart to Nina, who then uses Bridget's key to open it, restores the official lock, and then proceeds to shred the remaining bills. Meanwhile, Bridget, in the course of her janitorial duties, retrieves the dumped bills from the trash and splits them among Nina and Jackie in the women's restroom.

Their first robbery is a success though the take is not as big as they had hoped. However, they're emboldened to do it repeatedly. Once Don and Bridget pay off their debt, Don suggests they stop before they get caught. Bridget rejects this idea and persuades Nina and Jack to keep going. They almost get caught but they end up cutting Barry (Roger Cross), one of the security guards, who is attracted to Nina.

A Federal Bank Examiner shows up at a party at Bridget's house, and the next day, Jackie sees him at work. The Examiner confronts Glover (Stephen Root), the manager of the Federal Bank, who is unwilling as a matter of professional pride to admit anyone has stolen a single bill out of his bank. Tipped off, that night Bridget and her accomplices begin trying to get rid of all the loot stashed in their houses, but the cops move in before all the evidence is destroyed. Bridget escapes but the others get caught.

Bridget hires a tax attorney to defend them. The lawyer gets Bridget, Don, Nina, Berry, Jackie and Jackie's husband Bob Truman (Adam Rothenberg) off the hook for their crimes, because neither the law enforcement nor the examiner can prove that the large stash of cash in their homes came from the Federal Reserve Bank. It isn't illegal to have a couple of hundred thousand dollars in cash lying around inside a private residence. However, they spent a large sum of that stolen cash to buy expensive objects and improvements on their houses and didn't pay the taxes for them because they couldn't justify the income. The IRS demands they pay their taxes, which turn out to equal in the amount to the money that still remains.

Eight months later, Bridget reveals to Nina and Jackie that she had stashed away much of the stolen cash in the basement of a friend's bar.


Comedy / Crime / Thriller

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