Money for Nothing Page #6

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
113 Views


- I'll be out in a minute.

- Come on, Kate Cut it out

I'm comin' out right now

Hurry up

- You gonna forgive me?

- No

- You sure?

- Stop it

All right, all right

Just quit bugging me

Geez!

Damn it!

- Whoa!

- My god!

Joey!Joey, what happened?

Are you hurt?

Joey

Joey, did you find

the Liberty Bell money?

- Mom, look It's a real

hundred dollar bill

Did you find that money,Joey?

What does it look like?

- You been lying to us?

- I did not lie

I Just didn't

tell the whole truth

So what are you all

lookin' at?

Here, Billy

Here That'll fix the ceiling

Billy, redo the entire house

And pay off

the mortgage

Here, let's buy Ma-

Ma, we'll buy you

a summer house

on theJersey shore

With your own

private fishing boat.

With your own

private dock

Katie.! Katie, Katie needs, uh...

braces, right?

And, uh, she wants,

uh, a new bike

And she wants

to go to college

I don't want to be rich

if I have to go to school!

Eleanor wants

a new wardrobe and a new TV

Go to Iowa and visit relatives

you never even knew that you had

Whoa

W- W-W-Wait a minute

We don't need no money

that don't belong to us

Let them talk!

- I'll take the bike and a few hundred

- No, you won't

- Get in your room right now

- She wants the bike!

Joey, if the old man

taught us anything

he taught us you don't

get somethin' for nothin', right?

No such thing

as a free lunch

Then what's that

in my hand, Billy?

Billy, the old man is dead.

Remember what it was like

when he was alive? Remember that?

Workin' 18 hour days, his hands all

busted up He couldn't even make a fist

Three, four glycerin tablets

at a time to keep his heart pumpin'?

- You remember that? Yeah?

- Yeah, I remember

And if you know what's good for you,

you Just leave the old man out of this

What good did it do him?

What good did it do him?

His son is drinkin'

in the same bar stool that he was

Joey, you're gonna

clean this mess up

and we're gonna go down there tomorrow

morning and give that money back

Give it back?

What are you, nuts?

What do you think I got

to look forward to in my life? What?

I measure my life

in unemployment checks, Billy

I'm 26 years old and I live in the same

room right down the hall from my mom!

What do I got to look forward to?

What about my family?

What about my future?

I got nothin'!

I can't even get my own goddamn

brother to give me work!

Shut up! Shut up!

I do my best for you!

- Yeah!

- The best I can!

- You son-of-a-b*tch!

- Hey, hey! Break it up! Break it up!

- I'm keepin' the goddamn money!

- You're givin' it back!

- You are givin' it back! You hear me?

- Eleanor! Stop it!

- I ain't givin' sh*t back!

- You son-of-a-b*tch!

Eleanor, take your husband to bed

- You're givin' it back!

- Shut up, Billy! Go to bed!

You're givin'that money back.!

I want you outta this house

if you keep that money.

Stop it!

JoeyJoey, everybody

needs money to live

but not

this kind of money

No, Ma It's found money

The answer to our prayers

Your father used to say to me,

"Be careful what you pray for

You might get it"

You gotta give

this money back,Joey

I ain't givin' it back

I'll say a prayer

for you,Joe

And that's when I seen

these guys push the car in the river

How many?

Two, three, four?

Two, three, could have been more

But it was definitely couple of few

What did

they look like?

Bent noses Mobsters Guys that

look like they're up to no good

- Then what happened?

- Then they left in a fancy Caddy

That's the wrong car

What? Oh, oh, oh!

What do you- What do you- Excuse me!

What do you mean "wrong car"?

That's a Dodge

We only pay for Chevelles

What are you talkin' about?

Where's my cash?

- What?

- My cash. My money. My reward.

Take it up with Hrbek

Liberty Bell

You know, I took off

from work to be here

That's what I get

for gettin' involved with cops?

- Hey, frogman!

- Yo.

Right here

- Monica!

- Oh, god

Discount from book on an IPO

with great cash flow

Sully and Sons wants to lay off

half a million shares

- Monica, are you listening to me?

- I-IPO Great cash flow

- Right Check and see if Sully

settled on that last trade

- Yeah

Joe, if you're not here on business,

I don't have time for this

Miss Russo, I'd like to invest

$600,000 'til later tonight

Now, any interest you might

make on that investment...

is yours to keep

Joe, it's taken me three years

to go from receptionist to new accounts

Get my own desk

It's all clear now

So in three more years

you're gonna get a new desk

that's gonna be five feet away

And if you really

kiss ass

you're gonna get

your very own key to the toilet

Listen,Joe, I don't kiss ass

I busted my ass to get where I am

So don't be disrespectful

Buy two first class tickets

I don't care where Anywhere

As long as it's out of the country

What do you expect me to do?

Risk my life for you?

W- Where do you get off coming in

here to my place of work?

You're crazy

Meet me at Dempsey's Bar

at 11:
00 Don't be late

What if I don't show?

Well, you'll be

that much richer

I love you, baby

Monica, yes or no I'm still

waitin' to hear on that

Did Sully settle on that trade?

- Maybe, maybe not

- This kind of opportunity

doesn't happen every day

Busted windshield

It's anybody's guess

if it's a Chevelle

You want me

to bring it up?

No, let's come back tomorrow

Yeah, bring it up

- How're doin',Joe?

- Hi

Hi,Joe How you doin'?

You guys got my half mil

broken down as agreed?

Well, to get five for six,

you gotta

you gotta show me

the second six first

You're changin'

the deal on me

- No, we're not

- Joe, let him see it

Let him see it.

What the f***

is this sh*t?

JoeJoeJoe

I want my money

All I want is my money

Just give me my money

It's my money

We're doin' you a favor What the hell

are you doin'? Put that down

- It's my money

- All right Bring him his money

Dino, bring him his money

Every penny

You know, the only

real question with money is...

do you posses it

or does it posses you?

Shut up And I don't wanna hear about

Ben Franklin havin' sex in a tree house

I think that,

uh, the ink

from the bills

is seeping

into your bloodstream,Joe

And it's, it's...

affecting your equilibrium.

- Got your money,Joe

- Put it on the ground

Against the wall Get against the wall

Put your hands against the wall

Lie down

Put your legs

up in the air

Nickels?

Nickels?

Quarters?

You gave me quarters?

Well, the deal was

to break down

the money,Joe

You did not specify

what denominations

You evil son-of-a-b*tch

You give me my money or I'm gonna shoot

you You're gamblin' with your life

- Joe, don't be a punk, huh?

- Legs up!

They're up

You're not gonna shoot me

- How do you know?

- Because if you shoot me...

you got nothing,

nothing

You got 600,000 bucks

squirreled away somewhere,.Joe.

Go home

Put the gun down,.Joe.

You'll be able to carry more money.

- Philadelphia

police.! Open the door.!

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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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