Mad Money Page #2

Synopsis: 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 s
Director(s): Callie Khouri
Production: Overture Films
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
41
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
PG-13
Year:
2008
104 min
$20,536,106
Website
515 Views


my husband.

Now that could be your

savings account right there.

I don't think so.

It has money in it.

Oh, we're running

a little bit behind today.

And don't think

they won't notice.

Oh, they tell you

it's for security,

but meanwhile,

the guys in the ties

are keeping track of how many

times a day we need a goddamn pee.

Ha! This place is like

a Las Vegas casino.

No windows,

no privacy,

and a shitload of money

all around here.

The only difference is

nobody here ever has any fun.

Okay, 12.

I'm shifting

to the east vault.

Now, keep your head

down in here.

You know what I mean?

And don't spray directly

on the monitors.

The secret here:

Don't want

anything.

Don't even think

about wanting it.

What you can

think about,

what you can want...

is your job.

I do, yes.

Yes, sir, I do.

I--I am thinking

about wanting...the job!

That's what I'm thinking

about wanting, sir.

Thank you so much

for helping me.

Whoo!

Check this out!

How you doing, Nina?

Not bad.

New girl.

Hey.

Hard to watch, huh?

Worn out.

We get the new bills

from the mint.

There goes your

car payment.

Oops! That's

a new sofa.

Get the one

by the desk there.

In.

Whoa.

Let's go!

It may not seem

like much,

but I do feel like,

in our own way,

we do something kinda

important here.

Oh.

Oh! Oh, God, no!

How's it going?

God.

Hello?

Bridget!

- Mindy.

Hi!

- There you are.

I was just thinking

about you actually.

We've got to talk.

Mindy, you know what?

I'm out to dinner

right now

Oh, sorry, I didn't

mean to interrupt.

I'll call you back.

I would love

to do lunch.

Lunch? Great.

Tomorrow?

Well, not tomorrow.

But how about, um...

this weekend maybe?

That would

be wonderful.

Anyway...bye.

Bye.

- Bye.

Hey.

How'd it go?

Oh.

Honey.

You wanna

talk about it?

You remember that

Frontline we saw

on Third World

slave labor?

Yeah.

Then I don't have to

talk about it.

Oh!

Don!

Don! Don!

You wanna know

what she told me?

How the whole thing

got started?

Oh.

Looks like we're gonna

need a new one of these.

Let me show ya. You see?

You broke it right there.

She went shopping.

There's

something about stuff...

that's on display.

See, even if you've

got the same stuff,

they way they lay it out

makes you want.

Wanting is the root

of all...

needing stuff.

I'll tell you what.

They say money can't

buy happiness,

but it sure as hell

buys everything else.

That's what she said

she was doing when

she got the whole idea.

Just shopping.

Being a good American.

Do you ever

really think about money?

People think that they think

about money all the time.

But how often do we really look

at the actual physical cash?

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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