The read
Audiences rate it 37 points higher than critics do. Most of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog score higher.
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.
Ratings
IMDb5.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes20%
Audiences rate it 37 points higher than critics do.
79 audience votes
Key crew
- Carol SobieskiScreenplay
- Tom MuscaScreenplay
- Ramón MenéndezDirector
- Craig SafanOriginal Music Composer
- Ramón MenéndezScreenplay
Cast
- John CusackJoey Coyle
- Debi MazarMonica Russo
- Michael MadsenDetective Laurenzi
- Benicio del ToroDino Palladino
- Michael RapaportKenny Kozlowski
- Philip Seymour HoffmanCochran
- Alice DrummondMrs. Breen
- Maury ChaykinVincente Goldoni
- James GandolfiniBilly Coyle
- Fionnula FlanaganMrs. Coyle
- Elizabeth BraccoEleanor Coyle
- Ashleigh DejonKatie Coyle
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Themes
corruptiondetectiveinvestigationstolen moneybased on true storycriminalpolice officertrue crimemoney bagfederal reserve bankmissing moneybased on magazine, newspaper or article