
After losing her job, Jersey girl Stephanie Plum is broke. Needing a job she is told that her cousin, a bail bondsman, needs someone to help out in the office. But the only job openings he has are for skip tracers. She learns that Joe Morelli, a guy she knew intimately years ago, is one of the "skips". She eventually finds him but wasn't really prepared so he gets away. Another bounty hunter, Ranger, tries to teach her. Eventually she finds Morelli again, but he claims he is ... (Full plot summary below)
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After losing her job, Jersey girl Stephanie Plum is broke. Needing a job she is told that her cousin, a bail bondsman, needs someone to help out in the office. But the only job openings he has are for skip tracers. She learns that Joe Morelli, a guy she knew intimately years ago, is one of the "skips". She eventually finds him but wasn't really prepared so he gets away. Another bounty hunter, Ranger, tries to teach her. Eventually she finds Morelli again, but he claims he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and he is trying to prove his innocence. Eventually Stephanie thinks he's telling the truth so she stakes out the person who can help him. She only finds herself in trouble and Morelli saves her. She tries to find someone who can prove his innocence, but the problem is that shortly after meeting with them they're killed or attacked.
Leave your thoughts about One for the Money.
| One Guy's OpinionFrank SwietekA muddled, tonally clumsy adaptation of the first of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books. |
| BeliefnetNell MinowSomeday to be used in film schools as a textbook example of how not to adapt a best-selling novel for the screen, One for the Money is mis-cast, mis-scripted, and mis-directed in every category. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckStarring a painfully awkward Katherine Heigl, One for the Money mostly resembles a failed television pilot. |
| Newark Star-LedgerStephen WhittyI guess I can't call the movie sexist as it was largely produced, directed and written by women. So I'll settle for calling it dull, corny and amateurish instead. |
| The A.V. ClubSam AdamsDuring a dinner with Stephanie's colorfully ethnic family, including a squandered Debbie Reynolds, the reaction shots arrive with bludgeoning regularity, and the soundtrack's burbling organ serves as an incessant reminder not to take anything seriously. Fortunately, there's no danger of that. |
| cinemaobsession.comJeff OttoWe're meant to laugh at the fact that cute little Stephanie bumbles her way to getting one informant killed and another savagely beaten and thrown from a moving vehicle. Oh Stephanie, you're a riot! |
| Three Movie BuffsScott NashI enjoyed it in a guilty pleasure sort of way. |
| Boston GlobeMark FeeneyThe biggest problem One for the Money faces is trying to have it both ways: gritty-ethnic inner city vs. girly-girly comic. |
| Tolucan TimesTony MedleyDisappointing...The comedic lines penned by Evanovich, while riotously funny when read, aren't nearly as effective in the film. |
| jackiekcooper.comJackie K. CooperAnother example of a so so movie standing in the shadow of an excellent book. |