Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Prismark10 Rodney Dangerfield made his name in low brow slobbish roles. In Easy Money he plays Monty Capuletti, a kids photographer in New York. He is a working class guy who likes to eat junk food, drink, visit strip clubs, smoking dope and gamble with his friends which includes Joe Pesci and Tom Noonan.His mother in law, Geraldine Fitzgerald is actually a wealthy woman who owns a high end department store and she hates Monty with a passion. When she dies, she stipulates in her will that if Monty is able to give up his vices for a year, by eating good food, giving up drugs and gambling, he will receive $10 million. If he cannot, his family will get nothing and her scheming nephew Jeffrey Jones will inherit everything.The film is a bit hit and miss but is sporadically amusing. It feels rather underpowered maybe because you feel both Pesci and Noonan are underused. The film has a good theme song by Billy Joel.The subplot of Monty's daughter marrying a Puerto Rican and then is reluctant to loser her virginity to him comes across as clunky. Still Dangerfield reduxed the bare bones of the story a few years later and called it Back to School.

Michael_Elliott Easy Money (1983) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Minor comedy has Rodney Dangerfield playing Monty, a rather useless man who drinks, smokes and gambles too much, which causes his mother-in-law (Geraldine Fitzgerald) to hate him with a passion. After the rich woman dies, she puts it in her will that Monty and the rest of the family will inherit $10 million but only if he gives up all of his bad deeds. EASY MONEY is a passable comedy that has a few laughs but in the end you really can't help but look at it as a disappointment. There's no question that we get a few good laughs but the screenplay, written by Dangerfield and three others, offers up very little in regards to anything original. The main problem with the screenplay is that the premise just doesn't have much going for it. The bet of Dangerfield turning around his life doesn't come until about the forty-minute mark, which leaves us nearly an hour to sit around and watch him get sober. The first portion of the film gets some pretty funny jokes as the drunk Monty is constantly doing one wrong scene after another but these jokes are never as funny as the stand up from the actor. Another problem with the picture is a running joke where his daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has gotten married but she refuses to lose her virginity. Was this meant to be funny? If so there's not a single laugh that comes from it. Also, at 100-minutes the film goes on a bit too long. Still, there are still some funny laughs to be had and there's no question that Dangerfield is going a mile a minute as you certainly can't accuse him of slacking off. His full energy is on display and he manages to have some nice chemistry with Joe Pesci even if the actor isn't given much to work with. EASY MONEY is far from perfect and its not really what I'd call a good movie but fans of Dangerfield know the actor didn't have too much success on the big screen so this here is actually one of his better films.

intelearts While this is what it is, gags galore, low-brow, and funny stuff, Easy Money never quite hits the best of Dangerfield.Too many gaps between the one liners and some situations are just fillers, but otherwise all in all watchable and enjoyable.The plot is a good one, very very rich mother-in-law dies leaving all her money to the booze hound Dangerfield on the condition he straightens and flies right for a whole year. I just wish they could have got to the main plot sooner.Kind of like Brewster's Millions there are chuckles to be had, and anyway it's Rodney so you know what you're getting.All in all, an OK pizza and beer movie; nothing challenging, but nothing side-splitting either...

Kristine I was looking for a good comedy to watch and my mom recommended Easy Money which she had on VHS. I wasn't sure since I'm not a big fan of Rodney Dangerfield, but she mentioned that Joe Pesci and Jeffrey Jones, so I figured I would give it a shot. Now even though I'm not a fan of Rodney Dangerfield, I have to admit that he and the rest of the cast made this film extremely enjoyable. I really miss comedies like this, where the comedy was just so simple and had jokes that were a sure hit with most. Despite it being predictable and like a sit com, this was a great comedy.Monty is a rude, over weight alcoholic with a gambling problem, he has friends who have the same problem, but a family that still loves him. His daughter is about to get married to a gang member that he doesn't approve of. But when his mother in law dies, they inherit 10 million dollars, but there is an exception to when he gets the money, for a whole year, Monty has to behave and get clean and sober. With encouragement from his family and friends, Monty does the best he can to get that money.I just loved Joe Pesci, he's like that little kid who took on the big bully's and actually won the fight, he's just such a funny character, I love Joe! We also have the "unknown" actors of the time, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey Jones, among others. I loved the ending, it's definitely a classic and so funny. I would recommend this movie to anyone, it's all in good fun and a great comedy, we need more films like this today.8/10