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Where the Money Is

Where the Money Is (2000)

April. 14,2000
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6.3
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PG-13
| Drama Comedy Crime

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.

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HotToastyRag
2000/04/14

What an exciting flick! I watched it twice, and showed it to my mom, but she didn't like it as much. She remembered Paul Newman from his hunky days in the 1960s, so she had an understandably tough time watching him in a movie where he plays a wheelchair-bound stroke victim. If seeing him that way will break your heart, skip this one and watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof instead.If you're alright with that premise, go ahead and give Where the Money Is a try. It's another con-man heist type of movie, which I usually like to watch, but it's not the deepest puddle on the sidewalk, so don't expect a remake of The Sting. A nurse in an old folks' home and her good-looking husband are down on their luck. They love each other, but love doesn't pay the bills, so the former prom queen and high school quarterback come up with a crazy bank robbing scheme to get rich. Where does Paul Newman come in? Watch the movie and find out!

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bkoganbing
2000/04/15

Where The Money Is turns out to be a very weak and slightly impossible vehicle for Paul Newman to carry with his talent. It was not one of his better career choices for a role.Newman who was 76 when he made this film plays an aging bank robber who was transferred from state prison where he had a stroke and is now in a regular old age nursing facility. His assigned nurse Linda Fiorentino doesn't believe he's as sick as he makes out and she eventually finds out her suspicions are correct. How she does it you have to see the film for.But when she does it she's just intrigued by the rogue life Newman has led. Life for her as the prom queen who married football hero Dermot Mulroney has turned really dull. Linda needs some excitement. She should just have let Newman go his merry way and played dumb when the authorities would have asked her did she suspect anything. But she doesn't, in fact she plans a caper and actually gets Mulroney roped into it as well.After this the film becomes just way too preposterous for my taste. Newman's role essentially is Butch Cassidy or Henry Gondorff now as a senior citizen and he does well, but his talent just does not carry an incredibly preposterous story to success.Paul Newman had some good roles late in his career like Twilight, Road To Perdition, and Message In A Bottle. But this one in no way stacks up to those films, let alone the things he did in his prime.

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elshikh4
2000/04/16

For a moment you'd feel that this movie is all about nothing. But fortunately it isn't.Here, I preferred Paul Newman's Henry Manning over his Henry Gondorff back in The Sting (1973). True that it seems as ordinary flick, with the word TV written all over it (frankly I thought many times about the irony between the 18 million dollar budget and the 5 and a half million gross !). Though, it is a fine entertaining movie, for me, more than that Oscar winning movie of the 1970s.I liked Linda Fiorentino's both role and performance. She made it well as sensitive, hot and most of all understanding her character not as a lover of the old man, but a mentor's pupil. Just notice her eye look whenever she's with Newman; she's hungry for his brilliance so his experience.The thing about this movie is all in the last 15 minutes, not with the clever twists but where the meaning completes clearly. The movie's world centers around dead people (the old folks), live people but subsist as dead (the married young couple), and one truly live man (the master thief). The whole story is about the journey of these 2 love birds through the vivid world of this thief. And who'd have the ability to stand it and continue living it as it should : daringly and smartly. Because outside this way you'd be either a cowered or a loser (both dead anyway). So where is the money ? As the last shot tells us : It's where the guts, and the lust for life is.I believe Newman was one of the best actors who could portray this latent passionate love for life or precisely being alive. Observe him driving his car at the end chase, Oh God ! This 75 year old guy, who's originally famous of riding speed cars, seemed really convincing, mastering his moves as a wild heart of a man. This is so simple; just a solid heist with a point of view about life. Yes, again and again the genre movie can carry out messages. So…what could be missing ? Maybe more good music score. And that's it.For the fans of the heist movies only : besides (Where the Money Is), 2000 got others such as (Reindeer Games) and (The Opportunists). Before a revival would come with the whole next decade along with 2001's Ocean's Eleven and many more.

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bob the moo
2000/04/17

Carol MacKay is a nurse in a retirement care home. When a new patient arrives in chains and a wheelchair having suffered a stroke, Carol is surprised to learn he used to be a bank robber. Henry Manning is none-responsive though as a result of his stroke – hence his release from prison; however after several strange things Carol starts to suspect that Henry is putting on an act to get his release and sets out to force him to respond. She has to go to extremes to do this but, once he has come clean, Henry and Carol start to get on and develop a rough friendship – a friendship that inspires Carol to become more daring like Henry, specifically, she wants to rob a bank.By the time a nurse had sexually abused and then nearly drowned a comatose patient I had got the idea that this was not the film to look to if you're hoping for a plot that is totally coherent and logical. Indeed that is pretty much the way this whole film goes – we are expected to buy into characters that don't ring true and a plot that doesn't totally convince but it manages to still be entertaining thanks to the light touch it has and the slight charm that it has. It is still hard to shake off the feeling that this is nonsense because it really is, albeit it quite enjoyable nonsense.The cast really help carry the film by all buying into it. Paul Newman glides through the film with a sense of cool that covers up how silly his character is. Fiorentino is sexy and sassy enough to do the job but it shows that even she is struggling to understand her character's motivation. Mulroney is so-so but he does well enough for his support role. Although none of the three are brilliant, their deliveries do enough to give the film a light but engaging air that does help cover all the problems.Overall a fairly poor film in terms of plotting and characterisation but one that somehow still manages to be fun and entertaining. The performances are where it is at and the caper-style story keeps it all moving as long as you don't take it too seriously. Stupid but fun.

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