Pocket Money

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Chip N It's hilarious. I read the book it's based on, and the movie captures the spirit, look and ambience of the people and the Arizona/ Mexico borderlands Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/24 Full Review Steve D Passable only for Newman. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/19/23 Full Review delysid d some mild mannered folks might like this movie but i was bored by it, who cares about 2 dudes buying a bunch of cows Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 04/22/19 Full Review Audience Member Pocket Money is a remarkable, wonderful film. I cable-TV ran across it several years ago and watched it two or three times - and loved it -- before it seemed to vanish into the mists of time. Recently doing a web search trying to find a copy, I ran across the RT mention. Much to my surprise RT listed the script as being written by Terrence Malick, who has made several of my most favorite pictures. The dialogue - the chemistry - between Newman and Marvin is deliciously clever, and the overall TexMex texture of the movie is thick and rich, and rings entirely authentic. This is not a movie for clods; rather, one for appreciators of nuanced, genuine art. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Forget the uncomprehending raters and take the time to gather in and appreciate one of the best of those special films that made the 70s such a classic era for American cinema: cynical, real world with real men, outstandingly written and acted with a slice-of-life narrative unlike any other you have seen. It takes you on a ground level journey through the lives of the tread-upon, dispossessed, deluded and proudly unbowed. It is hopeful and life affirming, and features a superb script from Terence Malick. This is the sort of movie you have to provide the interstitial scaffolding for out of your own empathy, patience and imagination. For those who haven't got those inner resources, it's bewildering. For the rest of us, its as fun as a great book or a unexpectedly charming bar companion spinning endless yarns into the night. This is a film that separates the men from the boys. If you don't get it, then you aren't one of us. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Pocket Money (1972) -- [5.0] -- Paul Newman teams up with Lee Marvin to deliver cattle from Mexico to a shady dealer played by Strother Martin. Newman and Martin are re-teamed here with "Cool Hand Luke" director Stuart Rosenberg, with a script adapted by Terrence Malick (Badlands, The Thin Red Line). Despite the ingredients, "Pocket Money" doesn't amount to much. For a buddy picture, Newman and Marvin don't leave much of an impression. Marvin almost works as the boozing happy-go-lucky sort, but Newman is less convincing as a kind-hearted dim wit. Even Martin is oddly restrained here, at a time when you really just want to see him embrace a role of villainy. Maybe the problem is in the source novel or Malick's adaptation, but "Pocket Money" is slow to rev up and ends up going nowhere. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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