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| | | Think Green. Features: DVD 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! "A likable...heist film starring two of the deftest comedians working (Keaton and Latifah)..." Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer "An ingenious crime caper with three winning performances!" Entertainment Weekly "Mad Money is mad fun!" Jeanne Wolf, Parade Magazine "Latifah coasts on grit and verve, and Holmes has a goggle-eyed sweetness, but it's Keaton who rules." Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly "...breezy and zippy and girl-power peppy..." Robert Wilonsky, The Village Voice "..."Fun With Dick and Jane" meets "9 to 5"..." Stephen Holden, The New York Times "...the feistiest Hollywood movie about American women and their thankless jobs since "9 to 5."" Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
 Editor's Note
 Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah headline director Callie Khouri's (DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) second feature film. Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes) are two of many employees with mundane jobs at the high-security Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. Their lives change forever when career mom Bridget (Diane Keaton) takes a job there as a cleaning woman after learning that she and her downsized husband, Don (Ted Danson), are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Being surrounded by stacks and stacks of money is too much for Bridget to bear, and she corrals Nina and Jackie into taking the biggest risk of their lives: sneaking out of the bank money that is removed from circulation and about to be shredded. Amazingly, their scheme works, and soon the three are fast friends and the cash is piling up. But will they ever have enough "mad money," or will greed be their downfall?The fun here is in how three average women pull off a remarkably low-tech scam in the midst of super-high security levels, hidden cameras, and constant monitoring. Keaton, Latifah, and Holmes make a nice team, playing very different women with very different needs. Keaton's Bridget is trying to maintain her family's comfortable, upper-middle-class lifestyle when her husband no longer can. Meanwhile, the sole concern of Latifah's single mom, Nina, is keeping her sons out of trouble despite their surroundings. And Holmes's Jackie is a one-of-a-kind free spirit, dancing to the beat of her own drummer. Danson has some of the film's best lines as he tries to put his wife's actions into perspective.
| Features | Audio Commentary By Director Callie Khouri |  | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital Stereo |  | Featurette: Makin' Money - Behind The Scenes Of Mad Money |  | Includes Both Widescreen & Full Screen Versions Of The Film! |  | Interactive Menus |  | Original Theatrical Trailer |  | Scene Selection |
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|  | Studio: STARZ/SPHE |
 | Release Date: 5/13/2008 |
 | Running Time: 103 minutes |
 | Original Release Date: 2008 |  | Catalog ID: 80000 |  | UPC: 00013138000095 |  | Number of Discs: 1 | Audio & Video
|  | Original Language: English |  | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English |  | Video: Color |
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Entertainment Weekly "[I]t gives you a good, infectious dose of its heroines' money fever." -- Grade: B- 01/25/2008 p.56Reel.com 8 of 10 Why should George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and their Las Vegas crew have all of the fun? Callie Khouri's clever Mad Money lets the girls in on the action for a change, as Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes hatch a scheme to "withdraw" funds from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City...Khouri didn't pen this script (credit goes to Glenn Gers), but her screenwriting experience--she won the Oscar for Thelma & Louise--ensures that Money holds together and delivers laughs as the women beat the system. The film makes creative use of flashbacks and breaks the fourth wall between cast and audience. Key players, already in jail, recount plot details to flummoxed police officers. Bridget's theory about crime being contagious might not click, but comments about society's inherent desire to spend money we don't have hit home...In time, though, Money stops paying close attention to details. Nina doesn't want Jackie's phone number programmed in her cell for fear it might link the two ladies, yet the three "criminals" eat out at the same rib shack together every few weeks. We notice this primarily because the scam has been fairly airtight up to this point. But the cast, uniformly good, smoothes over most of the wrinkles, and Ted Danson, as Bridget's incredulous husband, steals every scene he's in. - Sean O'Connell Salon.com 6 of 10 If the theory of evolution applied to movies, there'd be no such thing as a sluggish caper film. Callie Khouri's "Mad Money" flaps its useless little fins desperately in a bid to incite our interest, and our laughter. But the picture has no legs, no style, no sense of movement other than the meandering, dawdling kind...The sisterhood message in "Mad Money" may be more muddled, but it still manages to seep through the movie's clammy surface. Keaton looks lovely here -- these days, even in the lousy roles she's been getting, she's at least interesting to look at -- but the movie makes virtually no use of her terrific timing. Latifah is equally radiant, but the movie constrains her charms instead of showcasing them. Holmes, as a dippy, trippy hippie chick, comes off best here: Of these three performances, hers at least has a pulse. Holmes, before her abduction and reprogramming at the hands of Ming the Merciless, was often a charming actress, and in pictures like "Pieces of April," she showed the promise of becoming quite a good one. If nothing else, "Mad Money" suggests that we haven't totally lost her. If she can bring a spark of mad joy to the act of stuffing money down her underpants, there may be hope for her yet. - Stephanie Zacharek
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