TWENTY BUCKS (1993) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Keva Rosenfeld
Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Elisabeth Shue,
Christopher Lloyd, Steve Buscemi, Melora Walters,
Gladys Knight, William H. Macy, Diane Baker,
Jeremy Piven, Rosemary Murphy, Spalding Gray
A collection of stories all connected to a $20 bill as it passes from hand to hand. This started out in the 1930s as an unfilmed screenplay by Endre Bolem, and finally made it to the screen some 60 years later as an indie production. (Bolem's son Leslie had a hand in the finished script.) The ensemble includes Christopher Lloyd as a coldly efficient armed robber, Diane Baker as a woman whose husband dies playing bingo, and Melora Walters as a stripper at a bachelor party who later turns up showing caskets at a funeral home. Linda Hunt plays a character whose luck, or lack of it, brings her into contact with the bill more than anybody else.
