KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

h_m6 I saw the first half of this movie and I almost fell asleep... Boring! The only good part in it was when Paul Newman was on screen. The story couldn't interest me unfortunately and maybe it was because of Miss Fiorentino: no charisma at all and really annoying. But hey, who am I? So I didn't (couldn't, actually) finish seeing this movie. Still, I found it too bad because Mr Newman has always been a favorite and I enjoyed most of the movies he's been in. I guess if the storyline doesn't 'grab' me it's just wasting time. Dermot Mulroney however has a great body! LOL! No but seriously, I thought his and Mr Newman's performance were good. All in all not my favorite Paul Newman movie. My husband thought it was a nice movie, so no comparing in taste is there? If you want to see a movie that isn't that complicated or exciting, thrilling etc. okay then it's a 'must see'. But don't blame me if you missed it because of falling asleep during watching it...

michaelsibley416 I was pleasantly surprised when I saw "Where The Money Is" because I didn't hear much about it. "Where The Money Is" happened to be one of the most enjoyable films I've seen all year. I knew I could count on Paul Newman to deliver a top notch performance as he has done in the past.Newman led a talented cast, which included Dermot Mulroney and Linda Fiorentino. These three are on a mission to pull off a bank job. It is not as simple as we think; Newman, a master bank thief, has been remanded to a hospital after suffering a stroke (or is it). This is where he meets a nurse who is sees through his charade and wants in on the action. The stakes have risen when the nurse's husband gets wrangled into the bank job."Where The Money Is" played to everybody's funny bone because Newman gives one of his most engaging performances. The one aspect of the film I enjoyed the most was Newman's captivating presence on screen with each scene he was in. He pulled the audience in with his charm and made them a part of a film.Though the plot has been done before in other movies, the way it was performed left me breathless because it is so unique. I have to give credit to Fiorentino and Mulroney because they play off Newman very well."Where The Money Is" is captivating as it is funny. When you add Paul Newman's humor and comedy with great support from Linda Fiorentino and Dermot Mulroney you have a rousing success in "Where The Money Is."

george.schmidt WHERE THE MONEY IS (2000) **1/2 Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney. (Dir: Marek Kanievska)Paul Newman has always displayed a certain laid-back, world weary cynical charm that has provided a wide cast career, rarely getting a shot to show how skillful a comic actor he is through subtle shadings of his own demeanor. In this fish-out-of-water caper comedy he is at a full tilt sublimity altogether.Newman is career criminal Henry Manning who's latest long-going con is assuming the identity of a stroke victim to get him moved out of the cooler into a nursing home but finds his cunningly sly façade picked apart from by shrewd and sexy Carol (the alluringly appealing Fiorentino), a nurse looking for a quick way out of her hum-drum post-high school senior prom queen decline. Her suspicions lead to a comic melange of experimental stunts to break the seemingly comatose geezer out of his haze and finally succeeds when she enlists her spouse Wayne (Mulroney) for an outing to a near by river where she proceeds to run Manning's wheelchair off the pier and relieved when he emerges from the drink scowling at his masquerade.Manning explains how he came to adopt his charade to the couple (he read a lot on yoga, tantric hypnoticism and a lot of New Age philosophy enabling him to remain statue-like) who enlist him on his next crime. Deciding on an armed money truck heist the trio hatch the plan with nimble and clever strokes ultimately leading to the not-so-perfect crime.The film's structure resembles a watered down Elmore Leonard (the story is by E. Max Frye, who penned `Something Wild', which oddly enough the film echoes in its character driven responsibilty shirking tone) Manning's foxy cool exterior is only circumvented by the ballsy yet vulnerable Carol who clearly has fallen for the older man and his daredevil existence that she can't help but want to drink in her parched life for his intoxicatingly inviting alternative. But by the time the act takes place the film betrays itself in the unspooling of its aftermath and the choice of the usually leaden Mulroney deflates its breezy execution.But Newman shines once again in a memorable turn oddly enough resembling the Burt Reynolds crime comedy `Breaking In' where he played an aging safecracker giving pointers to his protégé in training. His glistening glacier eyes sparkle even when masked in his faux-frozen grimmace in the earlier half of the film, waiting to spring to life again almost relievedly when Fiorentino finally breaks his spell. He's always exhibited a carefree, to-hell-with-authority repose that echoes some of his classic characters including Cool Hand Luke and Fast Eddie Felson. His match is made in the curvy nervy Fiorentino's Carol, who realizes her looks are still smoldering in spite of her salad days behind her, yearning for that rekindling herself. A near perfect pairing of the old and the new.

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.