Diane Keaton, Katie Holmes, and Queen Latifah headline director Callie Khouri's (DIVINE SECRETS OF THE YA-YA SISTERHOOD) second feature film. Nina (Latifah) and Jackie (Holmes) are two of many employees with mundane jobs at the high-security Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank. Their lives change forever when career mom Bridget (Diane Keaton) takes a job there as a cleaning woman after learning that she and her downsized husband, Don (Ted Danson), are hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. Being surrounded by stacks and stacks of money is too much for Bridget to bear, and she corrals Nina and Jackie into taking the biggest risk of their lives: sneaking out of the bank money that is removed from circulation and about to be shredded. Amazingly, their scheme works, and soon the three are fast friends and the cash is piling up. But will they ever have enough "mad money," or will greed be their downfall?

The fun here is in how three average women pull off a remarkably low-tech scam in the midst of super-high security levels, hidden cameras, and constant monitoring. Keaton, Latifah, and Holmes make a nice team, playing very different women with very different needs. Keaton's Bridget is trying to maintain her family's comfortable, upper-middle-class lifestyle when her husband no longer can. Meanwhile, the sole concern of Latifah's single mom, Nina, is keeping her sons out of trouble despite their surroundings. And Holmes's Jackie is a one-of-a-kind free spirit, dancing to the beat of her own drummer. Danson has some of the film's best lines as he tries to put his wife's actions into perspective.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English
Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Callie Khouri - Director
Featurette - Behind The Scenes of MAD MONEY
Trailer - Theatrical Trailer

Distributor Notes: Academy AwardŽ winner Diane Keaton, Academy AwardŽ nominee Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes are all in for the crime of their lives! Deep inside the most secure bank in America, three desperate women from very different worlds cook up the most unlikely heist of the century: Smuggle out millions of dollars in worn-out currency headed for a Federal Reserve shredder every day. Taking the cash is going to be easy? but getting away with it will be insane! Ted Danson, Christopher McDonald (HAPPY GILMORE), Roger Cross (24) and Stephen Root (OFFICE SPACE) co-star in this wild comedy caper from the creator of THELMA & LOUISE about chasing your dreams, beating the system and paying the price for MAD MONEY!

Source: Anchor Bay

Diane Keaton: American Actress/director, LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
Queen Latifah: Rapper/Actress
Katie Holmes: American Actress
Ted Danson: American Actor
Stephen Root: Actor/"Monkey Shines"
Christopher McDonald: American Actor
Adam Rothenberg: Actor, MAD MONEY
Roger R. Cross: Actor/"Beyond Suspicion"

Callie Khouri: Screenwriter - "Thelma & Louise"

Jay Cohen: Executive Producer
Frank DeMartini: Producer, MAD MONEY
James Acheson: Supporting actor, KAZAAM/IN THE SHADOW OF THE COBRA
Michael Flannigan: Producer, MAD MONEY

Glenn Gers: Screenwriter, FRACTURE (2007)

Martin Davich: Composer, JACKIE ETHEL JOAN: WOMEN OF CAMELOT (2001)
James Newton Howard: Composer, KING KONG (2005)

"[I]t gives you a good, infectious dose of its heroines' money fever." -- Grade: B-