
Money for Nothing
What would you do if you found a million bucks?
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Release Date
9/10/1993Runtime
100 minsOverview
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.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$11,000,000Revenue
$1,044,824Homepage
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An ordinary man's impulsive decision to keep found money spirals into a darkly comic cat-and-mouse game with the law, catching you between rooting for his escape and watching him unravel. It's a character study wrapped in a true-crime thriller that finds dark humor in desperation.
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John Cusack
Joey Coyle

Debi Mazar
Monica Russo

Michael Madsen
Detective Laurenzi

Benicio del Toro
Dino Palladino

Michael Rapaport
Kenny Kozlowski

Philip Seymour Hoffman
Cochran

Alice Drummond
Mrs. Breen

Maury Chaykin
Vincente Goldoni

James Gandolfini
Billy Coyle

Fionnula Flanagan
Mrs. Coyle

Elizabeth Bracco
Eleanor Coyle

Ashleigh Dejon
Katie Coyle
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