Mad Money (2008) poster
2008 · comedy · action · crime · heist

Mad Money

Directed by Callie Khouri1h 44m2008
ElsewhereIMDb5.924kRT22%Metacritic41
  • cosy
  • brisk
  • gentle
Movie DNA

Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / action, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

Our read · Mad Money (2008) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · action · crime entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want frothy female heist comedy with bras stuffed full of Federal Reserve cash.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 14attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upnuditydrug use

Skip it tonightSkip if greedy crime-as-fun or mom-com fluff feels too lightweight tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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