Metacritic Film

Funny Money

Starring Chevy Chase, Penelope Ann Miller, Armand Assante, Christopher McDonald, Robert Loggia, Guy Torry, Rebecca Wisocky, and Kevin Sussman

MPAA RATING:

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Comedy
98 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters January 26, 2007

This farce staring Chevy Chase is an adaptation of Brit Ray Cooney's hit play.

WRITTEN BY
Harry Basil
Leslie Greif
Ray Cooney (play)

DIRECTED BY
Leslie Greif

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

57 / 100

Critic Reviews

60 LA Weekly
Never-hilarious but often-quite-amusing film.
60 Los Angeles Times Michael Ordona
Once the farce finds its stride, however, it's generally worth the wait.
60 Variety
Greif obviously ascribes to the Blake Edwardian school of comedy, laying out gags with commendable topographical precision. But, unlike Edwards' unique mixture of sophistication and slapstick, Funny Money falls squarely in the tradition of pure farce, itself an anomaly in this age of aggressively abrasive personality comedies.
60 The Hollywood Reporter
The laugher about a meek middle manager who finds a life-changing fortune takes a while to hit its stride, but in its best stretches, it offers deliriously spirited farce.

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