Love & Money

Love & Money (1981)

She Uses Her Body the Way They Use Power... To Seduce, Betray and Destroy.

An investment planner, bored with his job and his girlfriend, is given the opportunity to help open a new firm in South America. Once in the new country, he finds himself dealing with dictators and revolutionaries during a time of intense political upheaval, and to complicate his life further, he begins an affair with his new employer's wife.

Date of release
1981-08-28
TMDB
5.1 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
James Toback

Casting

Interesting facts

Love and Money, also known as Love & Money, is a 1982 American drama film directed by James Toback and starring Ray Sharkey.

Production

Toback wrote the script "on spec". He attached Frank Yablans who unsuccessfully tried to set up the film at 20th Century Fox. It was then bought by Columbia Studios, who put it in development. The management of the studio changed and the project was put into "turnaround". Warren Beatty bought the script on the strength of Toback's debut feature as director, Fingers. He set it up at Paramount, intending to star and produce.

At Paramount, Beatty got the film critic Pauline Kael to work on the project. Kael was an admirer of Toback's and Beatty's and had recently left film criticism to work in Hollywood. However, Kael dropped out of the project after a number of weeks, instead becoming a consultant for Paramount (she would eventually return to film criticism).

"She helped me immensely on the script," said Toback of Kael. "But she decided she didn't want to ossify herself on one project for a year... Saying Pauline did a masterful job of alienating everyone is totally crazy. There has never been any kind of blow up, hostility, or disagreement except the kinds of disagreements that two intelligent people have over creative ideas.

Beatty dropped out of the film to concentrate on Reds. Toback and Paramount could not agree on casting without Beatty's involvement. The project was put into turnaround again, and Toback set up the film at Lorimar. Filming started November 26, 1979.

Toback made the film with Ray Sharkey, whom he later called "the wrong actor".

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