Mac Millionaire - Too Smart for a Blank Check

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Movie
German title Mac Millionaire - Too Smart for a Blank Check
Original title Blank check
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Rupert Wainwright
script Blake Snyder
Colby Carr
production Craig Baumgarten
Gary Adelson
Tony Shimkin
music Nicholas Pike
camera Bill Pope
cut Hubert C. de la Bouillerie
Jill Savitt
occupation

Mac Millionaire - Too Smart for a Blank Check is an American comedy film from 1994.

action

Ten-year-old boy Preston Waters is unlucky to have a father who is more interested in money and making money than his son. Since his two older brothers Ralph and Damien also open a small business themselves, he has to give up his own room for their activities. His father only says that it is his house and that he makes the rules. And as long as Preston lives with him, he has to accept these rules. Unfortunately Preston is very poor and feels it at every opportunity. He doesn't even get enough money for his birthday to open a checking account for himself. He'd have to have at least $ 200 for that, not an 11. It gets worse because Carl Quigley hits him. To apologize, he simply signs a blank check. Preston uses this to write the amount of one million US dollars on it. With this he goes the next day to Edward Biderman, the managing director of the bank, to redeem it.

Biderman thinks Preston is a messenger from Quigley, who not only escaped from prison, but also stored a million at Biderman for money laundering. Since Preston can prove Quigley's signature on the check, Biderman calmly gives him the money and believes that the case is over. But Quigley's real messenger, Juice, appears and aggressively demands his money. Of course, he cannot hand over the money and hence from now on it is Quigley's duty to raise the money. However, this is already given out with full hands in a shopping spree by Preston. The first thing he does is get his own house, which he buys under the name Macintosh against Quigley's last bid. Then he and Henry get his own chauffeur and buy all the toys that he could never have afforded before.

The beautiful bank clerk Shay Stanley works for Biderman. She is an undercover FBI investigator and has been watching Biderman for months. Since the million consists of marked bills, she can understand that Macintosh pays Quigley's money with the stolen money. And since Preston poses as a personal assistant, she lets him go on a date to get at the Macintosh. They not only spend an evening in a fine restaurant, but also have fun with a water game in the park, which is suddenly interrupted by Quigley, Juice and Biderman as they chase Preston away.

Shortly thereafter, his and therefore Macintosh's birthday party is due. He hires Yvonne, who is planning a real event with prominent guests. Preston realizes, however, that everyone is more interested in the Macintosh and its money than in him. He also finds that he has next to no friends and believes that his father no longer loves him. But he also realizes that he is wrong, because his father still loves him and fears that he is setting a bad example for his son because he is always more interested in money than in him, which is why he now fears Preston too was only after money.

After the party was an absolute highlight, with Preston having no fun at all and Yvonne wanting her $ 100,000, he finds that he only has $ 332.17 left. He must therefore publicly announce that the Macintosh is gone and will never come back. The guests leave the party angry because they think he is a fraud, leaving Quigley, Juice and Biderman who are not at all happy that all of the money has been spent. Preston can flee for the time being, incapacitating both Juice and Biderman. But Quigley overwhelms him and Preston seems helpless. Until Shay shows up with the police and frees Preston and has the three arrested. In the end, she promises Preston that he only has to wait six years before he can meet her again.

criticism

"The curious thing about this greedy fantasy is that it is played like an adult's daydream and not like a child."

- The New York Times

“The script and direction fall unreflectingly into the same consumer frenzy as their little protagonist , so that they are ultimately less interested in the needs and worries of the main character than in a superficial story of tension with humorous interludes. A technically experienced, but mentally immature film. "

- Lexicon of international film

background

The computer's computation of compound interest shows 342.506 years (342.506 in American notation ) to make $ 11 million from $ 11 at 3.5% interest. This also resulted in the alleged error in adding up to $ 504,071.08 instead of 999,667.85.

publication

The film opened in US cinemas on February 11, 1994, where it grossed 30.5 million US dollars at the box office. In Germany it started on June 23, 1994 and had 375,559 cinema-goers. The film has been available on VHS since April 13, 1995 and on DVD since August 31, 1999 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Janet Maslin : Blank Check (1994) on nytimes.com, March 6, 1994, accessed March 4, 2012
  2. ↑ Mac Millionaire - Too clever for a blank check. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Blank Check (1994) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed March 4, 2012
  4. ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1994 on insidekino.de , accessed on March 4, 2012