Stoutor
It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.
FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Erica Derrick
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Philippa
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
Isaac5855
MILK MONEY is a lovely and sentimental romantic comedy about a precocious pre-teen who decides to set up his widowed father with a warm-hearted prostitute, who is on the run from some bad people. This film is a warm slice of contemporary Americana, beautifully conveying small town sensibilities and their positive and negative effects on the fictional hamlet of Middleton. The story is simple (though it does take Dad a little too long to figure out what this girl does for a living)and the environmental subplot is underdeveloped, but the movie is filled with believable characters and funny scenes, including one very funny scene where the boy uses the hooker as a visual aide for a school project on the female anatomy. Melanie Griffith shines in a tailor-made role as V,the proverbial hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold, in her most appealing performance since WORKING GIRL and Ed Harris is charming and sexy as the dad. Michael Patrick Carter is utterly charming as the boy and Malcolm McDowell and Anne Heche offer funny supporting turns as a gangster and his ditzy moll, V's best friend. An entertaining romantic comedy that's beauty lies in its simplicity.
lkmpullum
I liked the movie. There were really excellently staged scenes in the movie with the child actors and they provide a great way to keep the plot moving and giving the audience information that we might not pick up on. The kids in this movie also become more aware of the world around them than the adults, whom seem too naive to realize that Melanie Griffith is a hooker. There are also some great tongue in check moments between Griffith and Ed Harris before everything hits the fan about Griffith being a hooker. Though many may feel that there are too many plot twists involved in this movie the writer and director do an excellent job of weaving them all together in a way that makes the audience want to believe that this could happen. I like to think of this movie as Pretty Woman meets the suburbs, but I realize that some Julia Roberts fanatics may strongly disagree.
rikki flores
why anyone would give this movie anything more than a 1 rating is beyond me.It is filled to the brim with clichés, terrible acting, a bad script, and just badness. C'mon, a hooker with a heart of gold? Again?!?! I watched this with my family when I was 12, because we lived in a town with one theater that showed one movie, and only on the weekends. We would go every week, no matter what was showing. We agreed unanimously that this was the worst piece of drivel that has ever been created. We still pretty much stand by that judgment.I won't go so far as saying that this movie was created by Satan, but it has such a concentration of raw evil and bile underneath it's lily white veneer, that I wouldn't be surprised if Lucifer's hoof marks weren't all over this one.Shame on anyone who gives this movie a 3 or better.
Andreas Niedermayer
To be honest, this is one of the movies I thoroughly enjoyed when I first watched it. Of course it is a simple and predictable story, but the actual transformation did it for me. The three boys are awesome. The way Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris fall in love with each other and how they find together despite unfavorable circumstances is nicely staged. Michael Patrick Carter is able to assert his character's emotional condition, his expectations and dreams, which puts this movie above the average family story, despite the hackneyed elements it may have. The happy end is indeed rather corny, but hey, the movie has a message, it is entertaining and funny. Thus you may watch this movie with your entire family.
