Mo' Money

This article is about the film. For the film's soundtrack, see Mo' Money (soundtrack).
Mo' Money

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Peter Macdonald
Produced by Michael Rachmil
Written by Damon Wayans
Starring Damon Wayans
Stacey Dash
Joe Santos
John Diehl
Harry Lennix
Marlon Wayans
Music by Jay Gruska
Cinematography Don Burgess
Edited by Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates
  • July 24, 1992
Running time
 97 minutes
Language English
Budget $15 million
Box office $40,227,006 [1]

Mo' Money is a 1992 American criminal comedy film directed by Peter Macdonald, and written by Damon Wayans, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Stacey Dash, Joe Santos, John Diehl, Harry Lennix, Bernie Mac (in his film debut), and Marlon Wayans. The film was released in the United States on July 24, 1992.[2]

Plot

Johnny Stewart (Wayans) is a lifelong con-man who meets a girl, Amber Evans (Dash), and tries to impress her by cleaning up his act and doing things the honest way. He becomes a mailroom clerk at the credit card firm where she works and soon finds that he needs money to impress Amber. So, he develops a scheme to commit identity theft (though this term was not used for the crime in 1992) with the credit card information of deceased cardholders that he has access to due to his mailroom position. He justifies his actions because he knows that he is only stealing from the company and not harming the individual cardholders.

With the help of his brother and fellow conman (Wayans), he charges large amounts of money to the cards with the intention of impressing Amber. The supervisor, Keith Heading (Diehl) (who is responsible for a virtual stolen credit card empire) records Johnny stealing a returned credit card, and cons him into joining his credit card ring.

Cast

Production

It is set and filmed at Chicago, Illinois in 64 days on July 16 and September 18, 1991.

Reception

The movie had a mostly negative reception.[3][4][5][6]

Box office

The film debuted at No.1 at the US box office.[7]

Home media

DVD was released in Region 1 in the United States on January 1, 2002, and also Region 2 in the United Kingdom on 17 June 2002, it was distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Mo' Money (1992)". Box Office Mojo. 1992-09-08. Retrieved 2011-10-29.
  2. ↑ "Mo Money(1992)". Yahoo movies. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Wilmington, Michael (1992-07-27). "MOVIE REVIEW : 'Mo' Money' Overdoses on Blood, Guts". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
  4. ↑ "‘Mo’ Money’ (R)". Washington Post. 1992-07-25. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
  5. ↑ "‘Mo’ Money’". Variety. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
  6. ↑ Maslin, Janet (1992-07-25). "Review/Film; A Scruffy Street Hustler In the Corporate World". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-05-29.
  7. ↑ Fox, David J. (1992-07-28). "'Mo' Money' Takes In Most Money". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

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