Twenty Bucks
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Movie Reviews of Twenty Bucks
Movie Review: Interesting Little Movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I discovered this movie while looking for Brendan Fraser films. It's got a a very talended cast and interesting premise; following a $20 bill as it gets passed from hand to hand, floats on the breeze, etc. The stories of the people involved with this $20 bill are intertwined in a clever and plausible way. Definitely worth watching.Movie Review: Great movie, but the DVD is fake widescreen
Summary: 3 Stars
You know how you often want to replace the old VHS tape of one of your favorite movies with a crisper, more permanent DVD copy? In this case, mostly forget it. Why? Because the DVD is not true widescreen or letterbox at all. In fact, when you compare it to the VHS tape, which plays full screen on your TV, the VHS tape actually has way more picture information on it than the letterboxed DVD! The image of "Twenty Bucks" on DVD is, in fact, severely slashed off at the bottom (as well as slashed off slightly less so at the top) in some misguided attempt to make it look like a widescreen movie, with those blank black bars above and below and all. In reality, about one-third of the movie image is missing on the DVD, which is just the opposite of what you usually expect when a movie is finally transferred to disc. This is a cruel defacement of an independent film masterpiece originally backed by Robert Redford's Sundance people. One hopes that Mr. Redford's team could help get this charming film back into true format, with all the film image as shot back on display again. This DVD does contain, however, some good "extras" and featurette material in which you meet the director and screenwriters and other people behind the scenes. They do appreciate how worthy a successor they have made to the great "Tales of Manhattan" (a 1942 film), which used a tuxedo tails jacket rather than a twenty-dollar bill as the object passing from one person to another, creating a very funny and often heartbreaking anthology of stories. [Note: The actress Melora Walters plays two characters in "Twenty Bucks" -- the Stripper and, later, the Funeral Director -- and in each of her scenes she amusingly gets to say the one-word line, "Whatever."]Movie Review: Good Cast; Fair Story
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a series of short stories, detailing what happens to people holding a particularl twenty-dollar-bill as it switches from owner to owner.
Several of the segments are quite good, my favorites being with the holdup men: Christopher Lloyd and Steve Buscemi. (Now there are two interesting character-actors, for you!)
It's not "family fare," so beware of that if that is a concern, but overall it was a decent "rental" DVD. The cast is more interesting and deep than the story.
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