'When you pass the buck, the last thing you expect is change.' A great cast draws you in to this thinly stretched but appealing multi-drama comedy that follows the fortunes of a $20 bill as it passes from hand to hand after being found - then lost - by a bag lady (Linda Hunt). This well-made film relishes its neat little premise and makes the most of it, though it's a candy-floss affair with a sweet, fleeting taste and no sustenance. Elisabeth Shue is amusingly cast as a waitress-writer, and so are Christopher Lloyd and Steve Buscemi as wacky low-lifes, while Brendan Fraser makes something of his few moments of glory as a likely lad who's set his eye on marrying an Arab-American whose millionaire dad started out with $20. If it all reminds you of old-style Hollywood movies like Grand Hotel or European ones like La Ronde, it was, in fact, actually written in 1935 by Hungarian writer Endre Bohem, though never filmed until his son Leslie polished it up as a tribute to his father, who died in 1990.

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