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List Price: $14.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 57619
Released: July 5, 2005 |
| Our Price: $4.30 |
| Used Price: $3.58 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This multi-character comedy follows the path of a single twenty-dollar bill in a city neighborhood, focusing on various holders and their intertwining stories, including two convenience store robbers, an estranged father and daughter, and a young newlywed couple.Starring: Elizabeth Shue, Steve Buscemi, BrendanFraser, ChristopherLloyd, Linda Hunt, Spalding Gray.
Twenty Bucks Reviews:
Interesting Little Movie 
2009-11-27 - I discovered this movie while looking for Brendan Fraser films. It's got a a very talended cast and interesting premise; following a $20 bill as it gets passed from hand to hand, floats on the breeze, etc. The stories of the people involved with this $20 bill are intertwined in a clever and plausible way. Definitely worth watching.
Interesting
2009-11-20 - The idea is very interesting and the cast (as many other reviewers have noted) is excellent! Some parts were a little dry and there were times when I really liked how the stories wove together and other times when it came across as sort of trite. When you take into consideration that this is a low-budget movie and the first film for the (writer??) that bumps it up quite a bit. I recommend seeing this film and I would love to see redux with the same cast.
Good Cast; Fair Story 
2009-06-11 - This is a series of short stories, detailing what happens to people holding a particularl twenty-dollar-bill as it switches from owner to owner.
Several of the segments are quite good, my favorites being with the holdup men: Christopher Lloyd and Steve Buscemi. (Now there are two interesting character-actors, for you!)
It's not "family fare," so beware of that if that is a concern, but overall it was a decent "rental" DVD. The cast is more interesting and deep than the story.
cool concept
2008-02-13 - One of my writing friends asked me if I had seen this movie after they read a review copy of my book "The Twenty Dollar Bill." I had not, and was very glad they asked me. This movie has the same basic concept I used, of telling a story by following the path of a single twenty dollar bill, changing viewpoint as the bill moves from person to person and place to place.
As explained in one of the special features, the movie differed from the original script written in the 1930s, making the plots and characters interweave more. I think that concept works well in the film, although I would like to find and read the original script.
A grand cast, and an enjoyable film.
Twenty Bucks
2007-08-14 - This was a good film. It was more of an independent film,so it probably went unnoticed by lots of people. It is a portrait of how money changes hands, and who's hands it changes to. It is a series of little stories and a twenty dollar bill is passed around through all of the character's. Definitely worth a look for anyone interested in short intelligent stories.
