Synopsis
Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann McKay, has a plan of her own.
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Cast
- Paul NewmanHenry
- Linda FiorentinoCarol
- Dermot MulroneyWayne
- Susan BarnesMrs. Foster
- Anne PitoniakMrs. Tetlow
- Bruce MacVittieKarl
- Irma St. PauleMrs. Galer
- Michel PerronGuard
- Dorothy GordonMrs. Norton
- Rita TuckettMrs. Weiler
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A preposterous plot, but it's not about a plot, it's about acting. - 75
Baltimore Sun
It's just another modest, unsurprising little heist flick. So why is it so much fun? Newman. - 75
Portland Oregonian
A light, old-fashioned, likable film that capitalizes on the personae of its three key performers and a sort of playfulness. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
I don't know that Where the Money Is would work at all were it not for what we, the audience, bring into the theater. - 63
Charlotte Observer
Maybe this is a case of too many cooks spoiling a simple broth: The movie had four producers, five executive producers, three writers (credited ones, anyhow) and three editors. - 63
New York Daily News
The film makers are so anxious to please their audience that they turn the last act into a preposterous cat-and-mouse game that nullifies the integrity of the story. - 50
Film.com
There's very little here that rises above the level of a competent straight-to-video picture, except that whenever Paul Newman and Linda Fiorentino are onscreen together they create something special. - 40
Los Angeles Times
The only way the film could have had a prayer of working--and thereby tapping its stars' considerable strengths--is by taking a much harder edge and going for dark, even bleak humor.
