One For The Money
Film Review
One For The Money is a 2012 film directed by Julie Anne Robinson adapted from author Janet Evanovich’s first novel in her Stephanie Plum series. The last novel newest in this series numbers twenty-eight. I’m not sure why more movies haven’t been made from the Stephanie Plum novels, but I’m hoping in the future, more will be put on the screen. The story doesn’t get old, and this first attempt to put Stephanie on screen was well done.
Katherine Heigl plays Stephanie, who becomes a bounty hunter in the City of Trenton after a divorce and finds herself laid off and out of work. Her sleazy cousin runs a bail bonds office and she’s alerted to a job opening there, from Grandma Mazur played by Debbie Reynolds, who is a trip and a stitch in her brother-in-law’s side whose roof she lives under along with her sister, of course. The husband believes she belongs in a home. The sister takes to drinking along with her ironing, making signs of the cross, and nearly fainting over Stephanie’s close calls with criminals and carrying a gun. And Grandma goes to funerals regularly to keep face with the neighbors and eat the cookies.
The part of Trenton they live in is called “the Burg” and every story about Stephanie and who’s died goes around pretty fast in the neighborhood via the neighbors who know Stephanie’s parents. It’s a rollicking good time and introduces…
