Where the Money Is
Where the Money Is
PG-13 | 14 April 2000 (USA)
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Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.

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SnoopyStyle

Retirement home nurse Carol Ann MacKay (Linda Fiorentino) is married to her high school boyfriend Wayne (Dermot Mulroney). They were the Prom King and Queen. One day, Henry Manning (Paul Newman) is brought in from prison. He had been incapacitated by a stroke. Carol starts to wonder if the legendary bank robber is faking to get out of prison. The allure of a criminal life is just the antidote to her blend life with Wayne.Fiorentino is great sexy fun. There is an appealing mentorship with Newman's criminal character. He's a solid sly fox. The main problem is that her husband Wayne keeps blocking the flow. I certainly do not want a romantic relationship but Fiorentino makes for a fun eager student. I would alter Wayne or eliminate him altogether.

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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.

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Robert Clarke

Paul Newman is on the con again, this time he's a bank robber feigning a stroke in order to get him moved from prison and into a hospital on the outside in order to get to the money he stole. Linda Fiorentino stars as the nurse assigned to look after him, who is more than a little suspicious of him, while also being totally fascinated by his past so much so that she plans to `do a job' herself – with the aid of `invalid' Newman. An okay thriller that mainly suffers from the lack of action involved, Newman is good as usual and Fiorentino is very sexy in a nurses uniform(!), while Dermot Mulroney does all right as Fiorentinos husband, reluctant to go along with her plan. I don't think this got a cinema release over here in the UK, and without Newman's involvement you can't help feel that this would have been a TV movie.

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gazineo-1

Weak and far-fetched adventure yarn where the always magnetic Paul Newman plays an old crook who is an internal of a geriatric hospital. Once there, he made acquaintance with a sexy and witty nurse (Fiorentino) and together they decided to try one more great robbery. Only Mr Newman gives some spark and passable moments in this lame movie with a routine and unconvincing ending. I give this a 4 (four).

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