Mad Money is a 2008 comedy-crime film starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes, and directed by Callie Khouri. It is loosely based on the 2001 British film Hot Money. The film begins in medias res, with the suspects getting caught and being interrogated. Then it flashes back to three years earlier and the film continues forward from there, interspersed with occasional bits from the interrogation. Three years before getting caught, Bridget Cardigan lived a comfortable upper middle class life until her husband Don Cardigan was "downsized" from his position and sunk into debt. The... paycheck for Selina, the housecleaner, bounces again. Selina confronts Bridget and suggests she take a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. On her first day on the job, Bridget hatches a scheme to steal worn-out dollar bills slated for destruction. For her team she chooses Nina , who works the dollar bill shredder, and Jackie , who takes bill carts from the Secret Service room to the shredding room. It takes some work to persuade Nina to join, but Jackie joins them quickly.
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| Release date: | January 18, 2008 |
| Directed by: | Callie Khouri |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 126 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frank DeMartini, Michael P. Flannigan, Jay Cohen, James Acheson |
| Editor: | Wendy Greene Bricmont |
| Music by: | James Newton Howard, Martin Davich |
| Cinematography: | John Bailey |
| Screenplay by: | John Mister, Glenn Gers |
| Estimated budget: | $12,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Action |