Where the Money Is (2000)

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Rating: PG-13

Release Date: Apr 14, 2000

Running Time: 89 mins.

Country Of Origin: United States

Country Of Origin: Germany

Country Of Origin: United Kingdom

starring: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Susan Barnes, Anne Pitoniak, Bruce MacVittie, Irma St. Paule, Michel Perron, Dorothy Gordon, Rita Tucket

director: Marek Kanievska, Stanton Barrett

Former famous bank robber Harry 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: Carol, the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, has a plan of her own. Suspecting he's playing possum and herself needing some escape from a boring job and husband, she offers Harry a deal, but the seasoned criminal keeps his guard up and his focus on where the money is.

"Where the Money Is" might be the cinematic equivalent to Viagra.

Story

Let's hear it for the old guy, who, in this movie, comes off sexier than his buff, young accomplice (Dermot Mulroney). OK, the old guy happens to be the gracefully aging icon Paul Newman -- as a feisty heistmeister who dodges a long prison sentence and then teams up with his equally conniving rest-home nurse (Linda Fiorentino) on a bank job gone wrong. "Where the Money Is" is breezy, suspenseful, and as much a love story as…