For Love or Money

For Love or Money
Directed by	Barry Sonnenfeld
Produced by	Brian Grazer David T. Friendly
Written by	Mark Rosenthal Lawrence Konner
Starring	Michael J. Fox Gabrielle Anwar
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Cinematography	Oliver Wood
Editing by	Jim Miller
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	October 1, 1993
Running time	96 min.
Country	USA
Language	English
Gross revenue	$10,997,166

For Love or Money (aka The Concierge) is a 1993 romantic comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Michael J. Fox and Gabrielle Anwar. The movie was rated PG by the MPAA. It was not a commercial success domestically in North America, earning less than half its production budget before being withdrawn from theatres after just four weeks of release.^[1]

Plot

Doug Ireland is a young man who works as a concierge at the Bradbury, a luxurious hotel in New York City that is beginning to decline. Doug is very well-connected and is very good at his job, saving his clients such as Mr. Wegman (Michael Tucker) significant amounts of money while ensuring they have a good time. Doug's dream is to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. He has saved every cent from his work and gotten an option on an old hotel there. But, he only has a few weeks to begin development on the hotel or else he will lose the option. He needs at least $3 million immediately, but his connections are not able to help him. His best chance to get the funds is Christian Hanover, a somewhat unscrupulous billionaire.

While Hanover considers Doug's proposal, he asks Doug to "take care" of his girlfriend, Andy Hart (Gabrielle Anwar), a beautiful model on whom Doug was personally interested (but who always rejected him, as she didn't want to be two-timing her secret boyfriend Hanover). Doug pretends to be dating Andy so that she can get close to Hanover without his wife suspecting, while Doug also has to prevent Andy from creating a scene with Hanover's wife, since Hanover has promised to get a divorce and marry Andy. Doug learns that Hanover is deceiving Andy but thinks that his hotel is more important and that Andy can make her own decisions, so he pretends that Hanover is being honest with her. However, as Doug and Andy spend more and more time together, and he explains his plans for his hotel and Hanover's critical role in them to her, he questions his actions and concludes that he can no longer be part of this. They fight, and Andy and Hanover leave together.

As Hanover is en route to the airport with Andy to vacation in Europe, Doug chases after her to tell her about Hanover's two-timing. Before he reaches them, though, Andy learns that the one of the documents that Hanover asked Doug to sign was intended to permit Hanover to take over the hotel project and force Doug out, and he explains to Andy that the project had too much potential for Hanover to share it with Doug. Andy abandons Hanover and heads back on foot, where she encounters Doug chasing after her. In the final sequence, we see that Doug and Andy have just married, when Doug gets a call from Mr. Wegman, who was sent Doug's business plan by other members of the hotel staff (without Doug's knowledge) and has decided to put up the $3 million that Doug needs to proceed with his hotel.

Main cast

• Michael J. Fox ... Doug Ireland
• Gabrielle Anwar ... Andy Hart
• Fyvush Finkel ... Milton Glickman
• Mike Moyer ... Charlie the Doorman
• Saverio Guerra ... Carmen
• Daniel Hagen ... Vincent, Bartender
• La Chanze ... Nora
• Paula Laurence ... Mrs. Elinor Vigushin
• Donna Mitchell ... Eleanor Hanover
• Michael Tucker ... Mr. Wegman
• Debra Monk ... Mrs. Wegman

References

External links

• For Love or Money at the Internet Movie Database

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