LouHomey From my favorite movies..

ThedevilChoose When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

HotToastyRag 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!

bkoganbing 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.

Petri Pelkonen Henry Manning is a legendary bank robber.He ends up in a nursing home after a massive stroke.Nurse Carol Ann McKay starts to suspect Henry isn't as sick as he seems.Soon those two, with Carol's husband Wayne, are planning a robbery of an armored money transport.Where the Money Is (2000) is directed by Marek Kanievska.Ridley and Tony Scott are two of the producers.Paul Newman is brilliant as Henry.Without his performance this would be a much more mediocre film.But it's also a treat to watch Linda Fiorentino playing Carol.Dermot Mulroney is also very good as Wayne.It's pretty unbelievable to watch those three do their heist.The way Paul's character turns himself into someone he's not.This movie is very entertaining, plus it has Paul Newman in it.A totally positive movie experience.

george.schmidt WHERE THE MONEY IS (2000) **1/2 Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney. (Dir: Marek Kanievska)Paul Newman has always displayed a certain laid-back, world weary cynical charm that has provided a wide cast career, rarely getting a shot to show how skillful a comic actor he is through subtle shadings of his own demeanor. In this fish-out-of-water caper comedy he is at a full tilt sublimity altogether.Newman is career criminal Henry Manning who's latest long-going con is assuming the identity of a stroke victim to get him moved out of the cooler into a nursing home but finds his cunningly sly façade picked apart from by shrewd and sexy Carol (the alluringly appealing Fiorentino), a nurse looking for a quick way out of her hum-drum post-high school senior prom queen decline. Her suspicions lead to a comic melange of experimental stunts to break the seemingly comatose geezer out of his haze and finally succeeds when she enlists her spouse Wayne (Mulroney) for an outing to a near by river where she proceeds to run Manning's wheelchair off the pier and relieved when he emerges from the drink scowling at his masquerade.Manning explains how he came to adopt his charade to the couple (he read a lot on yoga, tantric hypnoticism and a lot of New Age philosophy enabling him to remain statue-like) who enlist him on his next crime. Deciding on an armed money truck heist the trio hatch the plan with nimble and clever strokes ultimately leading to the not-so-perfect crime.The film's structure resembles a watered down Elmore Leonard (the story is by E. Max Frye, who penned `Something Wild', which oddly enough the film echoes in its character driven responsibilty shirking tone) Manning's foxy cool exterior is only circumvented by the ballsy yet vulnerable Carol who clearly has fallen for the older man and his daredevil existence that she can't help but want to drink in her parched life for his intoxicatingly inviting alternative. But by the time the act takes place the film betrays itself in the unspooling of its aftermath and the choice of the usually leaden Mulroney deflates its breezy execution.But Newman shines once again in a memorable turn oddly enough resembling the Burt Reynolds crime comedy `Breaking In' where he played an aging safecracker giving pointers to his protégé in training. His glistening glacier eyes sparkle even when masked in his faux-frozen grimmace in the earlier half of the film, waiting to spring to life again almost relievedly when Fiorentino finally breaks his spell. He's always exhibited a carefree, to-hell-with-authority repose that echoes some of his classic characters including Cool Hand Luke and Fast Eddie Felson. His match is made in the curvy nervy Fiorentino's Carol, who realizes her looks are still smoldering in spite of her salad days behind her, yearning for that rekindling herself. A near perfect pairing of the old and the new.