Article: Don't bank on `Money'.(LIVING)(Movie review)

Byline: Daniel M. Kimmel

COLUMN: Movie Review

"Mad Money" is the sort of movie you might watch on cable on a rainy Sunday afternoon or when you wake up in the middle of the night with a bad case of insomnia. It's a pleasant cast - Diane Keaton, Ted Danson, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes - and occasionally amusing things happen. Its problem is that it isn't pleasant or amusing enough. Once you start to think the plot through, you realize it's utterly ridiculous.

Keaton stars as Bridget Cardigan. She and her husband Don (Danson) lead a plush upper-middle class suburban lifestyle. Then one day Don loses his job and reveals they've been living on ...

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