Mad Money DVD

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Diane Keaton Katie Holmes & Queen Latifah headline director Callie Khouri's (DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) second feature film Nina (Latifah) & Jackie (Holmes) are two of many employees with mundane jobs at the high-security Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank Their lives change forever when career mom Bridget (Diane Keaton) takes a job there as a cleaning woman after learning that she & her downsized husband Don (Ted Danson) are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt Being surrounded by stacks & stacks of money is too much for Bridget to bear & she corrals Nina & Jackie into taking the biggest risk of their lives sneaking out of the bank money that is removed from circulation & about to be shredded Amazingly their scheme works & soon the three are fast friends & the cash is piling up But will they ever have enough 'mad money'or will greed be their downfall? The fun here is in how three average women pull off a remarkably low-tech scam in the midst of super-high security levels hidden cameras & constant monitoring Keaton Latifah & Holmes make a nice team playing very different women with very different needs Keaton's Bridget is trying to maintain her family's comfortable upper-middle-class lifestyle when her husband no longer can Meanwhile the sole concern of Latifah's single mom Nina is keeping her sons out of trouble despite their surroundings & Holmes's Jackie is a one-of-a-kind free spirit dancing to the beat of her own drummer Danson has some of the film's best lines as he tries to put his wife's actions into perspective