SnoopyStyle Sven "The Swede" Sorenson (Marlon Brando) is a feared prison warden. His only weaknesses are his two twin daughters Liv and Inga. The girls lie to him about being pregnant forcing their boyfriends Bud Dyerson (Charlie Sheen) and Larry (Thomas Haden Church) into shotgun weddings. The Swede murders an escaped prisoner. FBI agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino), the daughter of corrupt Judge Rolf Rausenberger (Donald Sutherland), investigates and finds a pattern of killings. The boys decide to escape the tyranny of The Swede by robbing a train carrying disused bills to be burned by the Treasury.There is an ugliness to this film. Brando is cartoonishly ugly. The girls are poor actors in their one and only credit. They probably got the job because they're twins and they're pretty enough. The boys have their own ugliness in that they're dumb but not in a funny way. None of this is funny. The most notable aspect is that this is Brando second to last film. It's better to remember The Score as his last. At least, that one is pretty good and he gets to leave on a high note. This one is a dark comedy that isn't any fun.

Predrag This movie, with its superb cast, starts out as a lighthearted comedy. All of a sudden, it takes a hard left turn - leaving the viewer wondering, "What happened? Is this the same movie I was watching a minute ago?" Brando is absolutely charming and hilarious in this dark comedy and the writing is first-rate. The cinematography of the woods and country is breathtaking and you really get a sense of this "small town" from the script and acting. Sheen and Church are fabulous in their parts although Sheen sometimes speaks a little fast in some of the comic punchlines, so seeing it more than once would be of benefit. The jokes are terrible, and it's all in poor taste. The other actors {Sheen, Sorvino, and Sutherland} are O.K. in their roles. It's Brando that you can't take your eyes off of. He only made one more film after this " The Score" and that was more of a cameo. This was his last starring role in a movie and it is worth watching.Overall rating: 6 out of 10.

Michael_Elliott Free Money (1998) ** 1/2 (out of 4) This Coen Brothers rip-off features Marlon Brando playing a sadistic warden who is told by his twin teenage daughters that they're pregnant. The father then makes the two dimwits (Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church) marry his daughters but then they all get mixed up in a train robbery. FREE MONEY cost a total of $30 million to make and features the likes of Brando, Sheen, Church, Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, David Arqiette and Martin Sheen yet it wasn't even able to find a theatrical release in America. This is a pretty bizarre movie from the start and it really makes you wonder what was going on during the production because nothing in the story ever makes too much sense. I'm not sure if it's true but I've heard that Brando pretty much was running the show and actually got this project off the ground, babied it and got it made. Apparently he was calling a lot of the shots so perhaps this is why it doesn't make too much sense. It's really hard to understand what the film is going for because it starts off as a silly comedy and then we get one backstory after another thrown onto it and before long you feel as if you're watching some sort of social drama. Sorvino plays a FBI agent who shows up because escaped prisoners keep turning up shot in the back of the head and then there's a side story dealing with her father (Sutherland) being the judge who is helping Brando with the murders. This entire point of the plot is brought up but never cleared up. The entire bit with the train robbery doesn't ever go anywhere and this part of the story takes you down one road and just drops you off without answering anything. The entire movie is just so weird that I couldn't help but find some mild entertainment out of it because it's clear the cast were at least giving it their all. This includes Brando who I really enjoyed and especially early on when he was playing the nutty father-in-law who would stop at nothing to ruin the men who took his daughter's flowers. Both Sheen and Church seem to be having fun playing dumb. When Martin shows up at the end it's a nice little trick but it's obvious he and Brando aren't filming at the same time so it somewhat takes away from the reunion. FREE MONEY is a hard film to recommend because most people will probably hate it or just be so confused by it that they turn it off. Fans of the cast or just weird movies might get some mild entertainment from it.

MartinHafer This is a film that no doubt disappointed many viewers. After all, it's a Marlon Brando film and he's considered, by some, to be a genius at his craft. So, it this is the category you'd fall into, the film is sure to frustrate you because it is NOT high art! However, if you can simply turn off your brain and enjoy, it's not a bad little time passer."Free Money" begins with two twin young ladies telling their insane and dangerous father (Brando) that they were each pregnant. So, in the next scene, you see a double wedding to two dim guys (Thomas Haden Church and Charlie Sheen). Neither suspected that the sisters were NOT pregnant and simply wanted to get married. As for Brando, he was the warden of a local state prison--and soon began treating his new son-in-laws like convicts. After all, he reasoned, they got his 'little girls' pregnant--and they needed to be punished. The treatment got so bad that Sheen concocted a scheme to rob a train carrying old bills headed to the incinerator. After all, then they could afford to run away and leave their dreadful lives.At the same time, a VERY clichéd female FBI agent (Mira Sorvino) comes to town to investigate the warden. She's the daughter of the local crooked judge (Donald Sutherland) and she is trying to discover why EVERY prisoner who tries to escape from the prison is found shot dead...and in the back! How these two plots converge is for you to see.On the plus side, the film is mildly humorous--though not hilarious. And, the plot is kind of cute and engaging. But, on the other hand, some of the characters were one-dimensional. Sorvino was the clichéd 'sassy feminist' character--one who, at times, acts really stupid--thus undermining her character and feminism completely. And, while it looks like Brando had fun playing his role, he overacted and mugged quite a bit. I didn't really mind this--but you won't detect any sort of master thespian in his acting! Agreeable, silly and slight--it's not great nor is it bad--sort of like toast.clichéd stupid lady