You Need Money to Be Rich
stealing with style
Reg’d © Library of Congress
Nobody ever met cuter:
She's tough; he's refined.She's practical; he's cultured.
She's brilliant; he's elegant.
She's serious; he's frivolous.
She's a lawyer; he's a crook.
She never loses; neither does he.
Romeo Balue, a handsome light-hearted retired art thief, has his eye on paintings stolen by the Nazis from his friend Ada’s family, now in the hands of the Kremlin. Ada forbids him to steal them. Then again, she can’t afford £10 million to buy them back...
Daring British barrister Francesca Smithson, the darling of the press for her courtroom tactics, is appointed to defend American CFO Hugo Danch at hearings to extradite him for absconding with a fortune from his crashing company F.U.X.
Proposed: Jean Dujardin
But at the hotel there's a mix-up, and when she arrives to meet her new client she's sent to Romeo's suite, and the call-girl he'd asked for is sent to Hugo's.
Proposed: Anna Friel
And, what is it, her spirit of fun? She lets Romeo think she's from room service and plays along. All right, she is a little bored with her fiancé.
Proposed: Steve Pemberton
Soon she's leading a double life—by night Romeo's bird of paradise, by day the defender of a man with a briefcase full of bearer bonds.
Proposed: Tim Robbins
Watching Hugo on TV, Romeo spots a pin number written on his palm, and investigates his hotel-room safe. To avoid arrest Hugo allows Francesca to take charge of the bonds.
Proposed: Anamaria Marinca
Ada's paintings are to be shipped back to Moscow after their show in London, and Romeo takes them in hand, scoops the bonds and disappears—
—leaving Francesca on the hook with some murderous people. Who's been conning who?
And the game heats up.
Set in London—
—and Como.
Pretentious pictures presents
You
Need Money to Be Rich
Robert MacLean is an independent filmmaker. His The Light Touch is on Amazon Prime, Tubi and Scanbox, and his 7-minute comedy is an out-loud laugh. He is also a novelist, a playwright, a blogger, a YouTuber, a film reviewer, a literary critic, and a stand-up comic poet. Born Toronto, PhD McGill, taught at Canadian universities, too cold, live Greece, Irish citizen. No brains, but an intellectual snob.
“I was beastly but never coarse. A high-class sort of heel.”
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