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Other People's Money

  • 19911991
  • RR
  • 1h 43m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
9.1K
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Danny DeVito in Other People's Money (1991)
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A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin.A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin.A corporate raider buys up shares in an undervalued company and falls in love with the founder's son's lawyer/step daughter. Let the battle begin.
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
9.1K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Norman Jewison
  • Writers
    • Jerry Sterner(play)
    • Alvin Sargent(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Danny DeVito
    • Gregory Peck
    • Penelope Ann Miller
  • Director
    • Norman Jewison
  • Writers
    • Jerry Sterner(play)
    • Alvin Sargent(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Danny DeVito
    • Gregory Peck
    • Penelope Ann Miller
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 60User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
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    Danny DeVito and Penelope Ann Miller in Other People's Money (1991)
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    Top cast

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    Danny DeVito
    Danny DeVito
    • Lawrence Garfield
    Gregory Peck
    Gregory Peck
    • Andrew Jorgenson
    Penelope Ann Miller
    Penelope Ann Miller
    • Kate Sullivan
    Piper Laurie
    Piper Laurie
    • Bea Sullivan
    Dean Jones
    Dean Jones
    • Bill Coles
    R.D. Call
    • Arthur
    Mo Gaffney
    Mo Gaffney
    • Harriet
    Bette Henritze
    • Emma
    Tom Aldredge
    Tom Aldredge
    • Ozzie
    Leila Kenzle
    Leila Kenzle
    • Marcia
    Cullen O. Johnson
    • Gus
    William De Acutis
    • Pfeiffer
    David Wells
    David Wells
    • Granger
    Stephanie White
    • Angeli
    Jeff Hayenga
    • Klein
    • (as Jeffrey Hayenga)
    Ric Kidney
    • Richardson
    Wallace G. Lane Jr.
    • Woody
    Steve White
    Steve White
    • Richard
    • Director
      • Norman Jewison
    • Writers
      • Jerry Sterner(play)
      • Alvin Sargent(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    • Trivia
      Danny DeVito refuses to eat junk food, so the donuts he eats in this film aren't fried, contain no sugar, and are fat-free. They were made to order by Mani's Bakery Cafe on Fairfax in Los Angeles.
    • Goofs
      When the envelope of the results is first seen, it is being handed over to the woman as a pink envelope. When she is reading the results, the envelope is yellow.
    • Quotes

      Lawrence Garfield: [In response to Jorgy's speech] Amen. And amen. And amen. You have to forgive me. I'm not familiar with the local custom. Where I come from, you always say "Amen" after you hear a prayer. Because that's what you just heard - a prayer. Where I come from, that particular prayer is called "The Prayer for the Dead." You just heard The Prayer for the Dead, my fellow stockholders, and you didn't say, "Amen." This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We're dead alright. We're just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw. Now how would you have liked to have been a stockholder in that company? You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future. "Ah, but we can't," goes the prayer. "We can't because we have responsibility, a responsibility to our employees, to our community. What will happen to them?" I got two words for that: Who cares? Care about them? Why? They didn't care about you. They sucked you dry. You have no responsibility to them. For the last ten years this company bled your money. Did this community ever say, "We know times are tough. We'll lower taxes, reduce water and sewer." Check it out: You're paying twice what you did ten years ago. And our devoted employees, who have taken no increases for the past three years, are still making twice what they made ten years ago; and our stock - one-sixth what it was ten years ago. Who cares? I'll tell you. Me. I'm not your best friend. I'm your only friend. I don't make anything? I'm making you money. And lest we forget, that's the only reason any of you became stockholders in the first place. You want to make money! You don't care if they manufacture wire and cable, fried chicken, or grow tangerines! You want to make money! I'm the only friend you've got. I'm making you money. Take the money. Invest it somewhere else. Maybe, maybe you'll get lucky and it'll be used productively. And if it is, you'll create new jobs and provide a service for the economy and, God forbid, even make a few bucks for yourselves. And if anybody asks, tell 'em ya gave at the plant. And by the way, it pleases me that I am called "Larry the Liquidator." You know why, fellow stockholders? Because at my funeral, you'll leave with a smile on your face and a few bucks in your pocket. Now that's a funeral worth having!

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Frankie and Johnny/Homicide/Little Man Tate/Ricochet/Shattered (1991)
    • Soundtracks
      I'm in the Mood for Love
      Written by Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields

    User reviews60

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    Featured review
    8/10
    Very enjoyable movie
    When I'm in the mood for a movie, I usually go to IMDB to check out it's rating. I try to avoid seing movies below a rating of 7. Who's got time to lose listening to a bad movie, right?

    Then, as I surf IMDB, I sometimes wander around checking other user's impressions of movies I've seen, I'm curious that way. And as I do that, I can also get a feel of the credibility I can give the rating system.

    Well, the rating I saw for "Other People's Money" blew my mind! I can't believe it has such a low rating. It's one of my favorite movies. I love the script, the clashing of ideas and values. I love the characters, the're very representative, opinionated, true and strong, and they're very well played. The movie's full of strong scenes: Garfield's first visit to the New England Wire's Co ("I like round numbers"), Garfield's chewing of his lawyer's ("You know what happens when the commies take over, the first thing they do is shoot all the lawyers!"), and of course the stockholder's meeting scene which alone is worth the whole movie. It is one of my most memorable movie scenes ever. I seriously have a hard time finding flaws in this movie.

    I've read reviews about how it wasn't true to the play - I didn't even know it started out, or was based on a play. I guess a lot of IMDB voters were disappointed in the treatment this movie made of the play and accordingly gave a bad score. My point is: so what? A movie should be judged upon what it is, not what it could or should have been. It deserves to be evaluated fairly as a "whole", not in relation to doubtful and personal expectations. I hate biased ratings.

    After seing the score this movie got on IMDB, I've lost a lot of faith in the value of using the rating system as a bearing for movies I'll want to see. My advice: don't be fooled. See this movie and judge for yourself.
    helpful•72
    10
    • c16031
    • Oct 23, 2003

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 18, 1991 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Riqueza ajena
    • Filming locations
      • Seymour, Connecticut, USA
    • Production companies
      • Warner Bros.
      • Yorktown Productions
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $25,682,090
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $5,012,332
      • Oct 20, 1991
    • Gross worldwide
      • $25,682,090
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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