Money Monster
Short description
Lee Gates hosts a financial television show where his stock tips have made him a star on Wall Street. When one of his viewers, Kyle Budwell, follows his advice and loses everything, he storms the studio during a live broadcast and takes Gates hostage on air. Gates and his producer, Patty Fenn, must keep themselves and the crew alive while an audience watches the standoff unfold, and the investigation behind the lost money begins to expose uncomfortable truths.
Jodie Foster directed the film, her fourth feature after Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays and The Beaver. George Clooney, one of the producers, plays Gates, with Julia Roberts as Fenn and Jack O'Connell as Budwell. Dominic West, Caitríona Balfe and Giancarlo Esposito appear in supporting roles. Jim Kouf, Jamie Linden and Alan DiFiore wrote the screenplay.
Made for around 27 million dollars, the film took in roughly 93 million worldwide, a solid return on that budget. Audiences rate it modestly: on IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from about 112,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.4 out of 10 from over 3,200 votes. A critics' score of 6 out of 10 from 280 reviews puts professional opinion roughly level with the general audience response.
What's left behind the scenes
- This is the fourth joint project for Julia Roberts and George Clooney. They starred together in "Ocean's Eleven" (2001), "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), and "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" (2002). In addition, Clooney produced the film "August: Osage County" (2013) featuring Roberts.
- The character played by Julia Roberts was originally going to be named Nancy.
- The screenplay for "Money Monster" was on the 2014 Black List – a list of the most promising screenplays that were never produced.
- Thanks to his friendship with Jack O'Connell, who also stars in "Money Monster", George Clooney became a fan of the Derby County football team, from the English city where O'Connell was born.
- The computer game played by the characters is "Just Cause 3" (2015), developed by "Avalanche Studios".
- Jodie Foster directed "Money Monster". She was once considered for the roles played by Julia Roberts in "Pretty Woman" (Garry Marshall, 1990) and "Conspiracy Theory" (Richard Donner, 1997). Foster worked with Richard Donner and Mel Gibson, the director and star of "Conspiracy Theory", on the film "Maverick" (1994).
- The reporter who discusses what happened at the end of the film is named Terry Benedict. This was also the name of the protagonist in the films about Danny Ocean and his friends (played by George Clooney).
- Busy individual schedules prevented Julia Roberts and George Clooney from seeing each other often on set.
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