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22 out of 32 people found the following review useful:
Entertaining feel-good comedy, 17 January 2005
Author: alv790 from Spain

Very conservative people might not like the plot of this film (kid tries to get his widowed dad and an ex-hooker to fall in love with each other), but actually everything is quite harmless and fun.

The story gets sometimes a bit silly (especially when the boy takes Melanie Griffith to school as part of his "science project"), but the acting and the comedy is good. There was always a smile on my lips as I watched the misunderstandings between Harris and Griffith, when the dad believes that she is a math tutor and the hooker believes he knows her true job.

Ed Harris does a good job as the shy father, and Melanie Griffith is believable as the golden hearted hooker. But it's the kid (Michael Patrick Carter) the one who steals the show, with his winning smile and his mixture of innocence and curiosity.

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11 out of 15 people found the following review useful:
some things we milk for all that they're worth, 5 September 2006

Author: Lee Eisenberg (eisenberg.lee@gmail.com) from Portland, Oregon, USA

I saw "Milk Money" when I was eleven; much of what happens in the movie is the sort of stuff that would make any eleven-year-old boy think "Whoa...cool!" Looking back on it, I still think that it was pretty funny, but was it the most mature movie? No, and it doesn't pretend to be. I read somewhere that this movie was sexist; I wouldn't know one way or the other. All that I interpreted was that the movie was a nice, horny excuse to have fun. Richard Benjamin has proved himself to be quite capable as a director, and this adds to that.

I know, the prostitute-with-a-heart-of-gold context is a cliché, but this is a comedy, so it passes. And believe you me, this V (Melanie Griffith) is definitely a V for vendetta! Also starring Ed Harris, Malcolm McDowell, Casey Siemaszko, and a very young Anne Heche. Really entertaining, especially the report on the female reproductive system.

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19 out of 33 people found the following review useful:
A Great Movie, 28 January 2002

Author: ColeSear

I'm sick of reading bad reviews of this movie. This is such a funny, heartwarming and endearing film. One look at the premise and many people would think it's hard to make the movie work that way but it does. This was my favorite movie of 1994 and it works on so many levels. The interaction between the actors is fantastic. Even though it is more a light-hearted comedy the teenaged stars are given a realistic treatment throughout the film which is something rarely see in film. Michael Patrick Carter, Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris are all stellar. This movie is filled with wonderful enduring scenes and is truly a delight.

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6 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
In some cases better then..., 12 November 2007

Author: steff-50 from South Africa

In some cases I'd say this is better then Pretty Woman. I say "some" with weight because Pretty Woman is a classic. But Milk Money fills that "hole" you had watching pretty woman. Ed Harris's character is sincere and attentive which matches Melanie's softness (which at the best of times can spoil her on screen performances) perfectly. It's a classic boy meets girl movie with that dash of "damsel in distress but is now hardened and tough due to life being so rough and who now finally meets a man who breaks through it all and understands and loves her for who she is" - as far as romantic comedies go- it was better then I thought it would be and even gets the heart strings welling when Ed Harris tells her "this could hurt"...The story itself can be at times almost childish, but in the end that's part of it's charm.

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4 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
a true stinker, 11 August 2003
Author: judyoz from Australia

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

This film is astonishingly, unbelievably bad. There are SPOILERS following, but I would most seriously suggest that you not bother in the first place.

At the beginning of Milk Money, three pre-teen boys decide to pool their piggy bank savings (hence the film's title) to go into town and make whoopee with a prostitute. Enter Melanie Griffith as V, the standard tart with a heart. She offers to show them her breasts for their stash, as this is all it will buy.

Reliving most of this story is too painful to go into much detail. Suffice to say that before long V is romancing the father of one of the boys (Ed Harris), is giving motherly advice, and is supporting Dad in his environmental concerns - all while on the run from her pimp.

This film is supposed to be funny, as well as romantic. But it's just appalling. Do yourself a favour and avoid it if you can.

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11 out of 21 people found the following review useful:
Melanie Griffith's tribute to Jane Fonda?, 27 December 2001

Author: Abby-9 from USA

I am always interested to see what actors can and will do in their work. I got such a strong Klute vibe from Ms. Griffith in the beginning of this movie. And it was nice to see Ed Harris just be Dad. The story itself is one of those adult fantasies that utilizes the kid mystique. Of course the-Hooker-and-the-Dad plays out an adult fantasy of its own. It turned out not to be a movie i would share with kids, in spite of its rating. It's a "yeah, sure" movie, white bread with way too much jam. BUT, i'm still glad i saw the work of the six pros who make it a viable (okay enjoyable--i enjoyed it)i'm-too-tired-tonight-to-move home entertainment. Yes, Virginia, there is a Hollywood.

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2 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Fun and light-hearted, 28 September 2000

Author: dindy-2 from Maryland

I really enjoyed the movie. Sometimes you want to watch something that is fun and lighthearted with a happy ending. Not every film is a great epic. People tend to be hard on films like these when writing a review because they think every film must be deep and intellectual. This movie can be enjoyed by the whole family, has a lot of funny moments, and won't give you nightmares. Not a waste of time if you like fun!

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3 out of 6 people found the following review useful:
Somewhat contrived, but amusing in stretches, 4 February 2000
Author: millennia-2 from In shame (2005 update)

Bad direction, a weak script and a career-low performance by Ed Harris sideline 'Milk Money', a movie which could've been excellent, but wasn't.

Onetime-respected-actor-now-reduced-to-B-movie-star Malcolm McDowell delivers a hilarious performance with help from Melanie Griffith and talented newcomer Michael Patrick Carter, but they alone do little to rescue the film.

The first half hour or so is perfectly on tune, then everything seems to change gears and 'Milk Money' is pushed from a comedy to a sappy drama with an awful dance sequence, and an ending that's even worse. To complicate matters even more, Harris is completely miscast, and future star Anne Heche is seriously underused.

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4 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Just about passable, 7 December 1998
Author: Glyn Ingram (mringram@hotmail.com) from London, England

The quite amazingly, extraordinarily, brilliantly sexy Melanie Griffith gives it all she's got in this pretty useless but just about watchable attempt at comedy from 1995. She plays a prostitute called 'V' whose approached by a group of pre-pubescent teenagers, desperate to see 'A woman naked.' One of the boys quickly develops a special relationship with the young prostitute, and, having lost his mother some time before, decides to try and fix her up with his shy and likeable father (Ed Harris).

The humour of "Milk Money" is a bit like that of "Weird Science -" Juvenile, annoying and yet light and sometimes observational. It's not a terrible film, just a film that you can't help wondering why or how it ever got off the drawing boards. It boasts some teriffic talent (No, not just Ms. Griffith), but the American-ness of it all just irritates, as does the dodgy script. Passable nonsense, but this isn't good filmmaking by any standards.

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7 out of 14 people found the following review useful:
worst movie I had ever seen at the time, 17 February 2006

Author: rikki flores from United States

why anyone would give this movie anything more than a 1 rating is beyond me.

It is filled to the brim with clichés, terrible acting, a bad script, and just badness. C'mon, a hooker with a heart of gold? Again?!?! I watched this with my family when I was 12, because we lived in a town with one theater that showed one movie, and only on the weekends. We would go every week, no matter what was showing. We agreed unanimously that this was the worst piece of drivel that has ever been created. We still pretty much stand by that judgment.

I won't go so far as saying that this movie was created by Satan, but it has such a concentration of raw evil and bile underneath it's lily white veneer, that I wouldn't be surprised if Lucifer's hoof marks weren't all over this one.

Shame on anyone who gives this movie a 3 or better.

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