Star Power Can’t Save ‘Mad Money’ From ‘Thelma & Louise’ Writer Callie Khouri

HollywoodChicago.com — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:17:53 -0700

CHICAGO – Whenever there’s stunt-movie casting with divergent generations of Hollywood “stars,” there’s bound to be trouble at the multiplex. This time, the “old to young” range of Diane “Annie Hall” Keaton, Queen Latifah and the increasingly annoying Katie Holmes attempt a stab at the classic heist movie in “Mad Money”.

Keaton portrays Bridget Cardigan: an upper-middle class matron whose husband (Ted Danson) has been laid off for a year and has given up trying to find another gig. Overwhelmed by debt and bills, Keaton goes back out into the work force. In an “it only can happen in the movies” turn of events, the best job she can find is as a janitor at the Federal Reserve bank (I guess all the administration jobs at the real estate offices were full).

As she gets into her new career – strangely doing the cleaning work during the day shift – she notices there are some flaws in the airtight security involving the shredding of old currency.

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Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, Diane Keaton Walk ‘Mad Money’ Red Carpet

HollywoodChicago.com — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:42:52 -0700

CHICAGO – “Mad Money” rolled out a glitzy red carpet in Los Angeles on Wednesday and we have the photos to show it. We selected the best 14 and created a new image gallery for the film premiere, which marks the first film release by Katie Holmes since her marriage to Tom Cruise.

Cruise, who’s not in the film, was there at the Overture Pictures shindig along with co-stars Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Ted Danson. A few Getty Images photos from the event can be seen below and the rest are in our new “Mad Money” gallery.

The film, which centers around three female Federal Reserve employees who plot to steal money that’s about to be destroyed, opens on Jan. 18. “Mad Money” is directed by Callie Khouri who can be remembered for the appalling 2002 film “Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood”.

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By ADAM FENDELMAN
Editor-in-Chief
HollywoodChicago.com
adam@hollywoodchicago.com