Money for Nothing (film)

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Money for Nothing
Money for Nothing
Directed by	Ramón Menéndez
Written by	Mark Bowden Ramón Menéndez Carol Sobieski
Starring	John Cusack Debi Mazar Michael Madsen Benicio del Toro
Distributed by	Hollywood Pictures
Release date(s)	1993
Running time	100 min.
Language	English
Budget	N/A (estimated)
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Money for Nothing is a 1993 comedy/crime film directed by Ramon Menendez. Film stars John Cusack with an ensemble cast includes Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio del Toro, Michael Rapaport, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Maury Chaykin, Currie Graham and Fionnuala Flanagan.

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Filmed in Pittsburgh, the movie centers around John Cusack as Joey Coyle, an unemployed South Philadelphia longshoreman who finds $1.2 million dollars in the middle of the street after it falls out of the back of an armored car. He proceeds to go on a spending spree, attempts to launder it through the local Mafia and is then arrested while attempting to flee the country.