Mad Money Page #4

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
535 Views


look like a janitor.

Huh?

What do you mean?

Boy, they are good.

Those guys are sneaky,

I'll give 'em that.

What? You think

I'm a weasel?

Or like a mole thing?

No. I'm serious.

I'm asking.

Just once?

Ever?

Is that what you being

here is all about?

Look, nobody, not once,

has ever beaten the system

in, like, a hundred years.

So what are you, some kinda

like super genius or something?

No. That's what's so funny.

It's just staring you in the face.

You only have to see it.

And you don't think

they've seen it?

No.

- Why?

Because they don't

empty the trash.

What?

- No.

Uh-uh.

Leave me alone.

Here, Mom. You need

to sign this for school.

What is it?

It's a list of weapons

we're not allowed to bring.

Like there's some weapons

you are allowed to bring?

You just have to sign

that you understand.

Oh, I understand.

I just don't understand.

Hello?

You don't want

the money?

I don't wanna go crazy,

and that's what makes

everybody crazy.

Everybody always

wants everything.

I don't want things

I can't have.

Do you live in America?

Hey, Mom, we got

a white woman outside.

What's she doing?

Just standing there.

She's our new

lawn ornament.

Well, she's coming.

Find someone else.

- I can't.

It only works with you in the

shredding room and someone from carts.

It might not even

work then.

Maybe I'm crazy.

You tell me.

Okay.

All right.

Did you do something

wrong at school today?

No. You?

- Not with a lock.

How did you get this?

The same as

the Fed does.

Master Lock Company,

mail order.

Completely legal.

The key won't fit.

No, it won't.

The Fed resets

the cylinders

and makes their

own keys.

Just think about it.

I'm not gonna

think about it.

Oh, okay. That's a good idea.

Don't think about it.

I won't.

Great. Great.

Whatever you do

don't think about it.

Give it up, Miss Daisy!

I have kids!

Yeah, well, so do I!

My husband and I after all these

years are still paying off--

I'm not talking about your

upper middle-class problems.

I'm a single mom.

If this thing goes bad,

I lose my children.

Oh.

- Uh-huh.

Now if that happens,

I will kill you.

You scared of me?

Yeah.

Good.

Now, who do we get

from carts?

Somebody is definitely

peeing in her cup.

Um...

Here, let me

get that for you.

Here you go.

What on earth?

Here.

- Thanks.

There you go.

Okay, then.

Well, we're not looking

for a Girl Scout.

Well, we didn't

find one.

When I was 9 years old,

I found out that every day

for the rest of my life,

I would be sticking

myself with a needle.

Early onset diabetes.

Okay.

I'm in.

- You're in.

Let's do it.

What?

That's it?

You don't want

to think about it?

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