TWENTY BUCKS
A film review by Mike Church
Copyright 1995 Mike Church
TWENTY BUCKS follows a twenty-dollar bill in its passage from a cash machine, through the hands of a startlingly variety of people, to its penultimate fate of being torn into tiny pieces. Along the way it gets stolen about four times, lost a couple, pushed into a stripper's G string, inherited, swallowed by a fish, mailed, driven over, and so on.
There's lots of good acting, notably by Linda Hunt who plays a bag lady. Like many of the characters, she keeps popping up in one scene after another. The result is a series of sub-plots that are woven together by their shared characters and by the double sawbuck.
An interesting side note: the script was written decades ago, and has been rejected by various studios many times over the years. As it appears here, the script has been re-written by the original author's daughter -- there's a scene in the movie which will probably remind you of this fact.
The acting, directing and so on all seemed great to my novice eye. It has a great sense of humour, and of the cruelty of fate. I'd recommend this movie to any of you who find yourself in a video store with intent to kill an evening.
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Jeremy Brown brown@mprgate.mpr.ca http://www.bus.sfu.ca/mike/jeremy/jeremy.html
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