Cash Only

Cash Only (2015)

Elvis Martini is in deep trouble. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten cash in an evicted tenant's apartment and it briefly keeps the wolves at bay, but it brings out a bigger wolf, one that wants his stolen money back. When his daughter is kidnapped by the mysterious menace he's accidentally messed with, Elvis has 24 hours to come up with $25K - cash only.

Date of release
2015-07-23
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (26)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Thriller, Crime, Drama
Director
Malik Bader

Casting

Interesting facts

Cash Only is a 2015 American-Albanian crime thriller film directed by Malik Bader. It stars Nickola Shreli, who also wrote and produced, as a landlord who is forced to resort to increasingly desperate measures to pay off his debts to banks, a loan shark, and a local mob boss. It premiered at the 2015 Fantasia International Film Festival and was released in the US on May 13, 2016.

Production

Nickola Shreli contacted Malik Bader after seeing Street Thief and suggested a collaboration. Bader agreed, and the film was financed through the life savings of Shreli and Ele Bardha, who played the loan shark Pete Cantor. Shreli, who wrote the script, always intended to play the lead himself. The part of mob boss Dino went uncast until a week before principal photography, when Stivi Paskoski auditioned from a cell phone.

Shooting took place in Detroit, Michigan, over the course of 13 days in winter 2013. Because of the shooting schedule and editing concerns, some scenes did not make the theatrical cut. Bader wanted to emphasize the role of religion and theme of redemption in the film, but he said audiences can see these ideas by reading between the lines.

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