Retirement home nurse Carol Ann MacKay (Linda Fiorentino) is married to her high school boyfriend Wayne (Dermot Mulroney). They were the Prom King and Queen. One day, Henry Manning (Paul Newman) is brought in from prison. He had been incapacitated by a stroke. Carol starts to wonder if the legendary bank robber is faking to get out of prison. The allure of a criminal life is just the antidote to her blend life with Wayne.

Fiorentino is great sexy fun. There is an appealing mentorship with Newman's criminal character. He's a solid sly fox. The main problem is that her husband Wayne keeps blocking the flow. I certainly do not want a romantic relationship but Fiorentino makes for a fun eager student. I would alter Wayne or eliminate him altogether.

Where The Money Is turns out to be a very weak and slightly impossible vehicle for Paul Newman to carry with his talent. It was not one of his better career choices for a role.

Newman who was 76 when he made this film plays an aging bank robber who was transferred from state prison where he had a stroke and is now in a regular old age nursing facility. His assigned nurse Linda Fiorentino doesn't believe he's as sick as he makes out and she eventually finds out her suspicions are correct. How she does it you have to see the film for.

But when she does it she's just intrigued by the rogue life Newman has led. Life for her as the prom queen who married football hero Dermot Mulroney has turned really dull. Linda needs some excitement.

She should just have let Newman go his merry way and played dumb when the authorities would have asked her did she suspect anything. But she doesn't, in fact she plans a caper and actually gets Mulroney roped into it as well.

After this the film becomes just way too preposterous for my taste. Newman's role essentially is Butch Cassidy or Henry Gondorff now as a senior citizen and he does well, but his talent just does not carry an incredibly preposterous story to success.

Paul Newman had some good roles late in his career like Twilight, Road To Perdition, and Message In A Bottle. But this one in no way stacks up to those films, let alone the things he did in his prime.

Two days ago, one of the greatest actors of all time left this life. Paul Leonard Newman was best known for films like "Hud", "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Verdict". But he also starred in small, less noticed movies over the years. One example is "Where the Money Is". Newman plays an aged crook who moves into a nursing home where it becomes clear to the woman (Linda Fiorentino) running the place that he's not as disabled as he claims to be and might in fact be looking for help in pulling off another heist.

OK, so an elderly criminal going in for one last scheme is sort of a hackneyed plot. But in this role, Newman doesn't even need to talk much; it seemed to me as if his eyes functioned as actors. Not to mention that there's some great chemistry between him and Fiorentino. This might not be the most noticeable movie, but it's worth seeing, if only once. There will never be another Paul Newman.

Also starring Dermot Mulroney.