Twenty Bucks
Twenty Bucks is a 1993 Amercian comedy-drama film directed by Keva Rosenfeld and starring Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Gladys Knight, Elisabeth Shue, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, David Schwimmer, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Spalding Gray. The film follows the travels of a $20 bill from its delivery via armored car in an unnamed American city through various transactions and incidents from person to person.
Plot
An armored truck brings money to load an ATM. A woman withdraws $20 but the bill slips away. A homeless woman, Angeline, grabs the bill and reads the serial number, proclaiming that it is her destiny to win the lottery with those numbers. As she holds the bill, a boy grabs the bill from her and uses it at a bakery. The baker sells an expensive pair of figurines for a wedding cake to Jack Holiday and gives him the bill as change. At the rehearsal dinner for the upcoming wedding of Sam Mastrewski to Anna Holiday, Jack reminisces about exchanging his foreign money for American currency when he first came to America, and he presents Sam with the $20 bill as a wedding present. Sam is taken aback by the perceived cheapness of his father-in-law-to-be, but is quickly "kidnapped" for his bachelor party, where he decides to spend the bill to pay the party's stripper. Anna shows up to explain that the $20 was not the entire present and suggests that Sam frame it to show that he understands its significance. Sam is unable to explain the absence of the bill, when the stripper comes in from the fire escape to offer it back to him. Anna apparently breaks the engagement.
Cast
- Adam Ryen
- Alan North
- Brendan Fraser
- Chloe Webb
- Christopher Lloyd
- Concetta Tomei
- David Rasche
- David Schwimmer
- Diane Baker
- Elisabeth Shue
- George Morfogen
- Gladys Knight
- Jeremy Piven
- Kevin Kilner
- Linda Hunt
- Matt Frewer
- Melora Walters
- Ned Bellamy
- Nina Siemaszko
- Rosemary Murphy
- Sam Jenkins
- Shohreh Aghdashloo
- Spalding Gray
- Steve Buscemi
- William H. Macy