Money for Nothing Movie Review 1993

$1.2 million falls off a truck in the warehouse district of Philadelphia where a simple-minded unemployed longshoreman (Cusack) finds the chance of a lifetime. Indiscreetly leaving behind a trail of spending, he soon has a detective (Madsen) snooping around dangerously close. But he only digs himself deeper by enlisting the assistance of the mob to help him launder the money. At this point the film disintegrates into a limp diatribe on the injustice of capitalism on society's downtrodden. Mazar plays Joey's ex-girlfriend who double-times it back to the fold after his find. Based on a true story.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, True Stories, Rags to Riches, Urban Drama, Philadelphia

Screenplay

Ramon Menendez, Carol Sobieski, Tom Musca

Cast

John Cusack, Michael Madsen, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Debi Mazar, Fionnula Flanagan, Maury Chaykin, James Gandolfini, Elizabeth Bracco, Ashleigh Dejon, Lenny Venito

Director

Ramon Menendez

Music

Craig Safan

Producer

Tom Musca, Gordon Freedman, Cyrus Yavneh, Matthew Tolmach, Hollywood Pictures, Buena Vista