Funny Money (2006)

Chevy Chase plays a factory worker who finds himself in possession of a briefcase containing five million dollars in this mob-themed comedy.

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Leslie Greif directs this adaptation of Ray Cooney's hit British play, a throwback farce about mistaken identity. Chevy Chase plays Henry Perkins, a listless late-middle-aged executive in a wax fruit company; his wife, Carol (Penelope Ann Miller), is similarly bored, a struggling sculptor and housewife in Hoboken, NJ. On his way home from work to a surprise birthday party Carol is throwing, he accidentally switches briefcases with a Russian mobster. He opens the suitcase at a local bar and discovers five million dollars inside. He rushes home and tries to arrange a flight to Barcelona for Carol and him so they ca...
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n take the money and run. Detective Sergeant Genero (Armand Assante) shows up later; he saw Henry at the bar and is suspicious of his actions. The Perkins, along with their friends Vic and Gina Johnson (Christopher McDonald and Alex Meneses), concoct an elaborate plan to fool the detective, which is only complicated by Carol getting sloppy drunk, the arrival of a homicide detective (Kevin Sussman), a famous gallery owner (Rebecca Wisocky), Henry's boss (Robert Loggia), a frustrated standup comic cabbie (Guy Torry), two more identical briefcases, and the party guests. The comic action reaches a climax in a standoff with Mafia kingpin Mr. Big (Zoltan Butuc).
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Henry Perkins is ontwerper van gewaxt fruit wiens vrouw Carol op het punt staat eindelijk door te breken als artieste. Wanneer Henry in de metro per ongeluk zijn koffer omwisselt met een andere koffer, waarin vijf miljoen dollar zit, krijgt zijn leven een geheel andere wending. Terwijl Henry zijn vrouw probeert te overtuigen het geld te houden krijgt hij de Russische maffia en de politie achter zich aan. Bovendien krijgt hij te maken met een lijk en bezorgde vrienden.

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