Watch Other People's Money For Free

i must have seen a different film!!

How sad is this?

Crappy film

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Larry the liquidator buys up businesses and sells their assets. He has his eyes on a wire and cable company. He meets with Jorgensen, the company President and tells him his plan to challenge him for control at the next stockholder's meeting. So Jorgensen asks his step daughter, Kate, a lawyer to help. She meets with Larry, and he is smitten with her, but he still sets out on his plan and a battle to see who can get the most shares, ensues.....Its a film about Yuppies, for Yuppies, with a little bit of romance thrown in.What should have been a biting satire about old school not wanting to part with something, even though its potentially failing, ends up wanting to be a screwball-esque forties comedy, with a little bit of Wall Street thrown in.And while it's an entertaining enough movie, it's not topical enough, and its politics are severely dated. And thanks to the failure of Bonfire Of The Vanities, it's not surprising the film vanished without a trace.Plus, the way the female characters, apart from Miller, are depicted and spoken to, is a little too misogynistic.But Devito is at the top of his game here, showing a more human side in his character like he never has before. Peck predictability steals the film, and before you can say 'Greed is Good', it's all over and we get a sort of happy ending.Now time for a Donut.

It's been a few years since I saw Other People's Money, but I just watched Time Changer last night, and it brought this movie to mind. If you've seen both or read descriptions of both you might think they have nothing in common, but I think they share this: They are probably the two most "serious" movies I have ever seen, in the sense that both seriously present complex philosophical issues.Other People's Money has a plot and a story, of course. But at heart, it is a discussion about a serious social question: How should we as a society deal with changing technology and economic circumstances? The movie sets up two opposing characters: Gregory Peck's character takes the position that society must be compassionate. Just because a business is no longer efficient or is producing an obsolete product doesn't justify putting them out of business and putting all the employees out of work. At one point he makes a moving speech for giving people a chance to adapt and find solutions to get the company back on its feet. Danny DeVito's character says that real compassion is to get everybody out of a losing enterprise and working someplace that is actually productive. In my opinion, both sides are given a fair hearing in the movie. This is one of the few movies that fairly presents both sides of a controversial issue.From a dramatic, story-telling point of view, DeVito's character is great. MINOR SPOILER HERE: When we first see him he comes across as a crude, greedy jerk. But then gradually we see that this is just an act that he puts on. Watch especially for the scene in the Japanese restaurant: it sums up the paradoxes of his character.

"Other People's Money" sort of takes "Wall Street" and puts a comedic spin on it. Danny DeVito - in full pumped-up, crazy form - plays Lawrence "Larry the Liquidator" Garfield, a corporate raider plotting a hostile takeover of a store that provides the town's livelihood. The plant's owner (Gregory Peck) sends young lawyer Kate Sullivan (Penelope Ann Miller) after Larry, but nothing goes as anyone planned.This seems like the sort of movie that only Norman Jewison could direct, how he takes a real-life issue and shows it in a manner to which we can all relate. The whole part about the relationship between Larry and Kate was maybe a little unnecessary, but it's overall good that the movie shows the Wall Street types for what they really are...even if you grow to admire Larry. Maybe if you grow to admire Larry, it's because Danny DeVito makes him so funny. The movie comes out very well done. Also starring Piper Laurie, Dean Jones and William DeAcutis in his final role.

How many Hollywood movies can you name that are pro-capitalism? The list is pretty damn short. Normally, businessmen are stock, two-dimensional villains, easy targets casually and uncritically hatched out of Hollywood's lamentably simplistic ethos: poor equals virtuous, rich equals evil. Think "It's A Wonderful Life". So it is delightfully refreshing to find a movie that actually understands something about economics. And the wonderful thing about the movie is, for most of the movie, you don't know which way it's going to go, and you're totally ready for Hollywood to just chuck rational economics and yield to their normal sappy sentimentalism. But that's not what they do here, what comes is much more interesting. A very good movie.