Money for Nothing

Synopsis: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Ramón Menéndez
Production: Buena Vista
 
IMDB:
5.7
R
Year:
1993
100 min
116 Views


# My bills are all due

and my baby needs shoes #

# And I'm busted #

# Cotton is down

to a quarter a pound #

# But I'm busted #

# Gotta a cow that went dry

and a hen that won't lay #

# A big stack ofbills

that gets bigger each day #

# The county's gonna haul

all my things away #

#'Cause I'm busted #

# They got the change

of a nickel,y'all #

- # Busted #

- # Hey #

#I've been to my brother

just to ask for a loan #

# 'Cause I was busted #

# Said I hate to beg

like a dog without a bone #

- # But I'm busted #

- # Oh, well, well, well #

- # My brother said #

-# Hey, there ain't a thing I can do #

- # Well #

- # My wife and my kids

are all down with the flu #

- # Said it's true #

-# And I was just thinkin'about

calling on you #

# 'Cause I'm busted #

# 'Cause #

# Well, I am no thief

but a man can go wrong #

# When he's busted #

# Well, you know the food

that we canned last summer is gone #

# And I'm busted #

# See the fields are all bare

and the cotton won't grow #

# Me and my family

gotta pack up and go #

# I'll make a living

Just where I don't know #

# 'Cause I'm busted, oh #

# Oh, I'm busted #

Tired of being busted

all the time.

# I need some money

Yeah #

# Oh, money #

# My bills are all due

My baby needs shoes d

# And I'm busted d

# Sent out of town

like a dog without a bone #

# 'Cause I'm busted #

# I try and I try

but still nothing gets paid #

# That big stack of bills

gets bigger each day #

# They're trying to take

everything I own away #

# Yeah #

# 'Cause I'm

I'm busted #

# Without a dime #

Yeah, 42

We're en route to Atlantic City

Check, 42.

You're running behind schedule.

# don't have a dime #

# No money #

# So broke #

Shipside orders, three plus one.

- Jimmy O'Connor and Timmy O'Connor.

- Here

- Wilhelm.

- Right

Chilled cargo, containers.

Camden Marine terminal.

- Rivera.

- Yeah

- Hoffman. O'Hara and Wolkin. Hanratty.

- Yeah

- Eddie

- Uh-huh.

- Rudolph. Jackson

- Yeah.

Final call.

Concentrated O.J., six plus one.

- Benvenutti. McClaghan.

- Yo.

- Jefferson.

- Yeah.

Dunleavy

- Whoa, there you go

See what clean livin' can do?

- Shut up

You,Joey

NotJoey Coyle

Joey Sullivan Come on

- Let's go, Sully.

All right, that's it today.

- That's two weeks

almost we ain't workin'

I can do twice the work of that

old geezer Sullivan, so he must

got somethin' on you, right?

Yeah, he's got four kids

he's gotta feed

That's what he's got on me

Come on, find me a slot

Pad a gang if you have to Half a day

You ain't gonna put me to work,

you know, front me some cigarette money

Hey, a man who can't buy

his own cigarettes,

shouldn't be smokin', should he?

You-You always get philosophical

on me when you don't gimme work

Come on, William

I got so many holes in my shirt,

when I walk down the street, I hum

Hey, little brother!

Tuna fish?

What do you want from me?

Tell it to Eleanor I'll see you later

How's it goin'?

What?

Are we lost or what?

- Jesus, man

- Shortcut to the new highway

- Joe, what do you want to do now?

- Same thing we always do:

Drive around all day

with our d*cks in our hands

This is gettin' boring,

you know

- dd

- Joey, my father don't want

nobody smokin' in this car

I'm glad we're

clearin' this up

Damn lighter

don't work no how

- Yeah

- Got my half of that sandwich?

Take the big piece

dd

Joe, there's more celery

in this than tuna

You know what

I don't understand.

Your own brother

can't even give us a Job

That's Billy Always got to prove to

everybody that he's fair all the time

It's like- It's like a-acute integrity,

you know what I'm sayin'?

F***in' wearin' me out

It's not my fault

if the city don't fix the roads

dd

Things'll get better,Joe

You know?

Things always get better

Before you know it,

we'll be eligible for retirement

Down at Atlantic City

sippin' on margaritas or something

Yeah

Forty years'll go by in no time

Hey, pull over That thing there

It might make a good toolbox

- It's a piece of crap

- Pull over Stop the car

Come on, stop the car!

Joey, hurry up

and get your little box, all right?

Move it!

Go! Go!

- I thought you wanted that stinkin' box

- The hell with the box

Joey, what the f*** are you doin'?

- Joey, what the hell you got?

- Somethin' on its way to Trump

TaJ Mahal in Atlantic City

- What is it?

- 12 million

12 million what?

Hey,Joey,Joey,

that's my mom's crucifix

- She'd be-

- Aaah

Joey, is that real?

That looks like

it's real,.Joey.!

Wow!

Wow!

Wow!

Don't-Don't touch it,.Joey. You don't

wanna get your fingerprints on it.

Okay?

Don't touch the money.

It's all- It's all

hundred dollar bills

I think these are unmarked!

- You don't find that kind of

money Just lying on the street

- I Just did

- It don't belong to us

- Finders, keepers, Kenny

Joey, look at the bag It says

"Property of the Federal Reserve"

- That makes this a federal offense.

- Kenny, think about it

- Did we hurt anybody?

- No

Did we steal it

from anybody? No

Are we giving it back?

Hell, no!

Possessin is nine-tenths of the law

You know what I'm sayin'?

It's-It's their negligence

It's their-

Oh, ah, 11:
00, 11:00.!

- Sh*t,.Joey.

- Drive straight. Drive straight.

We're busted,.Joey.

- If we're caught, we're busted.

- Don't drive slow.

- Don't drive slow

- I'm not,Joe

Joey, I ain't gonna be nobody's

cell b*tch for a sack of dough

What the hell

are you doin'?

Are you insane?

There are cops

back there

Joey, listen to me

We walk over to the cops

We say, "Cops,

look what we found"

We give 'em the money.

You know there's gonna be a big reward.

Then we'll be big heroes

and we'll be big shots.

All right? We'll be the guys

who found the money

Kenny, who wants to be famous

for being stupid?

- Kenny, Kenny, we're keepin'the money.

- You're keepin' the money,Joe

Kenny, you're gonna regret this

for the rest of your life

- Half of it's yours Drive the car

- Shut up!

All right This is what's gonna happen

I never gave you a ride home

I never saw that money,

all right?

I want you to swear on your

father's grave that whatever

happens, I'm not involved

I swear to you, Kenny

- Please drive the car! F*** it

- Joey, get out of my car.

I'll see you later

- Hi,Joey

- How ya doin', Mrs Breen?

Anybody home?

Is that you,.Joey?

- Yeah, Ma

- I thought I heard you come in.

I could do with a hand

to carry in the laundry upstairs.

Be right down, Ma

- You look worried

- No work

Well, it'll pick up

Your father always

used to say

"Theresa, someday our ship

is gonna come in.

And when it does, wejust have

to be careful we're not at the airport. "

You worried

about money,Joey?

- No

- You sure?

Yeah I'm all right Really

- Sure you're all right

- Ma. Ma. Ma.

- Take Monica to the movies

- Mom Ma

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Me and Monica,

we're all done

Well, then you're gonna need it when

you get back together again Yes, yes

Joey, what happened

to the bedspread?

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Ramón Menéndez

Ramón Menéndez is a Cuban–American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing the 1988 film Stand and Deliver. His other film directing credits include Money for Nothing (1993) starring John Cusack and the Disney Channel original film Gotta Kick It Up! (2002). He also served as a screenwriter for all of the films he directed. His only film as a screenwriter and not as a director was the 2001 film Tortilla Soup. He has also worked in episodic television, directing episodes Tales from the Crypt and Perversions of Science, in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Menéndez won two Independent Spirit Awards for his work on Stand and Deliver.Menéndez is a native of Cuba and grew up in California. He is an alumnus of San Francisco State University and UCLA Film School. His first credit in film industry was serving as an assistant director on the Oliver Stone-directed film Salvador (1986), he also had a small acting role in the film. He is a frequent collaborator with film producer Tom Musca. more…

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