funny money

It's Henry Perkins' birthday--just another ordinary day for an ordinary wax fruit factory foreman. That is, until he mistakenly ends up holding a briefcase containing five million dollars on his subway ride home. Mayhem and hilarity ensue as Henry tries to convince his wife Carol to keep the loot and flee with him to paradise while Romanian mobsters, the cops, a dead body and dozens of nude statues join the medley. Chevy Chase and Penelope Ann Miller star.

Miller’s comic timing is “revelatory. She’s terrific, as is Chase, who is more relaxed and generous than he’s ever been, as if having taken seven years off to stay home with his daughters has reminded this perennial scene gobbler that there are pleasures to be found in letting the other guy score the laugh.” (Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly)