Bridget's theory about crime being contagious might not click, but comments about society's inherent desire to spend money we don't have hit home. That's when she spots a loophole in the bank's famous security system. Archived from on January 29, 2008. The Examiner confronts Glover , who is unwilling as a matter of professional pride to admit anyone has stolen a single bill out of his bank. They owe a mountain of debt, their house is being repossessed, and she thinks she might as well gulp get a job.
The two people she co-opts are single mom Nina Brewster and diabetic, trailer living and constant music listening Jackie Truman. Finding out this information, Bridget comes to the conclusion that she needs to get a job - any job - that at least provides them with some benefits. Why should George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and their Las Vegas crew have all of the fun? Suburban socialite Bridget Keaton cooks up the inside job after her husband's financial ruin forces her to take custodial work at the bank. A victimless crime, unless it brings down the economy, of course. Their lives are perfect — on the surface.
It is the only Tyler Perry scripted film not directed by Tyler Perry. After all, she has to figure some way to fund her cushy, upper-class comfort zone crafted by greed. In court for divorce, Helen lets Charles keep all the money and property, provided he pay Brian's attorney fees and continue paying for her mother, Myrtle's stay in a nursing home since he made her place her there; Charles agrees to both terms. They run into Brenda upon arriving. It is Perry's debut feature film, and the first entry in the Tyler Perry film franchise. Charles hopes to start over with Helen, but during a family dinner, she gives him her wedding ring and signed divorce papers and tells him she will always be his friend.
Hot Money is based on the true story of a group of women who worked at the and, over an unknown period, removed an unknown amount of money that was supposed to be destroyed. We notice this primarily because the scam has been fairly airtight up to this point. Helen and Orlando argue when he learns she has moved back in with Charles to look after him. This causes him to have a strained relationship with his daughter, Tiffany , who wants to join the church choir. No one except these women know the exact details of the theft.
Almost immediately, Bridget is enthralled with all the old worn out money that is being shredded. Brenda is revealed to have emptied Charles's bank account during his hospitalization and left with their boys. She figures out a way to steal used bills on the way to the shredder by smuggling them out of the building stuffed into her bra and panties, and those of her partners in crime, Katie and the Queen. Archived from on December 5, 2008. She recruits flighty cash transporter Jackie Holmes and struggling single mom Nina Latifah , whose job requires she shred bills that are no longer in circulation.
Technically, it isn't illegal to have a couple of hundred thousand dollars in cash lying around inside a private residence. She comes up with a plan to get her old lifestyle back by stealing much of that money, which she believes is an easy job since the locks used on the money carts are standard equipment and as she notices that no one ever checks the garbage as she goes about her work. In addition, all of Charles's friends and associates have turned their backs on him now that he has been left penniless. Eight months later, Bridget reveals to Nina and Jackie that she had stashed away much of the stolen money in the basement of a friend's bar. By Roger Ebert There is something called Found Poetry.
However, they're emboldened to do it repeatedly. It was a fictionalised account of the. These are not really reviews, but serve the same function. The jury returned an 8—0 verdict in favor of Perry. Archived from on January 31, 2008. .
Archived from on January 23, 2008. Meanwhile, career criminal Jamison Milton Jackson asks Charles to be his defense attorney in his trial for shooting an undercover cop during a drug deal and to possibly bribe the judge in his favor. Advertisement I would have observed that the movie makes it all look so easy and painless that it's a good thing it opens with a flash-forward showing them in a panic mode, so we know that sooner or later something exciting will happen. Their first robbery is a success though the take is not as big as they had hoped. Bridget escapes but the others get caught. The , , was released on February 24, 2006.
And there's of course a chief of security who is constantly being outwitted. Brenda chooses to let Charles die, but Helen, still Charles's legal wife, tells the doctor to do everything they can for him. On the evening of their 18th wedding anniversary, Helen arrives home to find all her belongings in a U-Haul, and that Charles is kicking her out for Brenda , his young mistress and the mother of his two sons. He becomes a kinder man, while she helps him recover. Bridget rejects this idea and persuades Nina and Jackie to keep going.