2008 · comedy · action · crime
Mad Money
Directed by Callie Khouri1h 44m2008
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
Our read: Mad Money (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · action · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
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