A young male employee of the US Mint has destroyed a serious bundle of money, through a moment of carelessness. After some thinking he finds a solution : sneaking into the building unnoticed and printing (or re-printing) the same amount. However, the scheme starts to snowball, with ever more angles, accomplices and spoils to be considered...
A pleasant comedy that feels somewhat like a more innocent and family-friendly cousin of "It's a mad, mad (etc) world". The movie starts in a slow, deliberate, somewhat plodding fashion but gains speed and traction in the second half, when the jokes announced or prepared in the first half begin to pay off. For instance, one of the perpetrators arrives at the US Mint building dressed like a Founding Father ; it seems like a redundant piece of whimsy but it lays the foundation for some good jokes, one of them consisting of a successful pastiche of the "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Leutze.
It's a comedy without violence or obscenity, which can safely be watched by anyone between the ages of 8 and 88. Even the ending is good-natured, with the crime itself getting punished, in a fashion, but with the gang members taking their losses in good humor. And yes, the young male employee has finally discovered that his female co-worker is both beautiful and kind, which is exactly the kind of sweet, happy conclusion the viewer expected/predicted some 50 to 60 minutes earlier.
A pleasant comedy that feels somewhat like a more innocent and family-friendly cousin of "It's a mad, mad (etc) world". The movie starts in a slow, deliberate, somewhat plodding fashion but gains speed and traction in the second half, when the jokes announced or prepared in the first half begin to pay off. For instance, one of the perpetrators arrives at the US Mint building dressed like a Founding Father ; it seems like a redundant piece of whimsy but it lays the foundation for some good jokes, one of them consisting of a successful pastiche of the "Washington Crossing the Delaware" painting by Leutze.
It's a comedy without violence or obscenity, which can safely be watched by anyone between the ages of 8 and 88. Even the ending is good-natured, with the crime itself getting punished, in a fashion, but with the gang members taking their losses in good humor. And yes, the young male employee has finally discovered that his female co-worker is both beautiful and kind, which is exactly the kind of sweet, happy conclusion the viewer expected/predicted some 50 to 60 minutes earlier.