Mad Money Page #5

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
542 Views


What's there

to think about?

The...consequences.

Nope.

I'm down.

When do we go?

Well, I don't know.

I mean, obviously,

we have to review

the plan.

Well, I got the plan.

Do you got the plan?

Do you have the lock?

She has it.

So why not?

"Why not" seems like a really

bad reason to do something,

don't you think?

Why?

Okay.

Why not?

All right.

We need a "go" code.

Okay, I'm sorry,

but a "go" code?

I don't think we want

to be walking around the Fed

saying "Let's rob the Fed

today at work," right?

No, you probably don't

want to be saying that.

There you go.

- Oops.

Thanks.

Okay.

We need a code word

like, um--

Um, like...

- Liftoff.

Yeah. Liftoff.

That comes up really

easy in conversation.

Right.

'Cause you don't want it to be

something you could say accidentally.

You know, like, if our

"go" code was "hot",

and I saw you and I said, "Hey,

Nina, you look really hot today,"

and then you go and you

start stealing money,

that could be

a problem.

The last time somebody

told me I looked hot

was about seven years

nine months ago.

And I don't want

to hear it again.

It's been seven years

since you had sex?

All right. Can we just

please focus for a minute?

I think that the signal

should be...

a gesture, basically.

How about something

that doesn't get us

into some sort of

an incident?

How about something

more like...

um, I don't know,

like this?

See?

Right.

Works for me.

Yeah. Mm-hmm.

So...that's it, then.

We're good to go.

I know.

Um...

Jackie?

We need to talk to you

about the drugs.

Okay.

It's none of our

business--

It is our business.

We could go to jail.

Plus it's stupid.

If we see any signs

that the drugs

are affecting your

abilities in any way--

In any way--

We're gonna pull

the plug.

Do you

understand that?

Yeah. No warnings,

no excuses, no apologies.

You mess up, it's over.

Is this like an

intervention?

You damn right.

Wow.

I guess I

could have told them,

but I was just really...

touched.

That they would take the trouble

and everything, you know?

This takeover bid

is irresponsible!

I think the CEO has

lost his mind.

And honestly,

the whole board ought

to get 20 years--

Yeah, right.

Like white guys are

gonna do time.

Man, we'd get that

if we stole a candy bar

from a convenience store.

Hey! You listen to me!

You ain't no man

making jokes about crime.

Ain't no men in prison.

Just corpses don't know

enough to lie down.

Now that is not who

you're gonna be.

I don't care what I gotta do,

you're not going that way.

Do you hear me?

- Yes, ma'am.

I was gonna go steal

candy bars,

but now I won't.

Come here.

Give me some love.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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