'Money' won't buy you laughs

0 Comments | USA TODAY, January, 2008 | by Claudia Puig

Mad Money

**

Stars: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah,

Katie Holmes, Ted Danson

Director: Callie Khouri

Distributor: Overture Films

Rating: PG-13 for sexual material and language and brief drug references

Running time: 1 hour, 44 minutes

Opens today nationwide

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Moviegoers will come up empty with Mad Money.

This lifeless comedy and uninventive caper feels as if it were cobbled together at a studio's obligatory consciousness-raising diversity seminar.

You can almost see the moderator writing the called-out suggestions on the board: Cast Diane Keaton for the over-45 contingent, particularly older white suburban females, add some cheeky street cred with Queen...