Unemployed and newly-divorced Stephanie Plum lands a job at her cousin's bail-bond business, where her first assignment puts her on the trail of a wanted local cop from her romantic past.
After losing her job, Jersey girl Stephanie Plum is broke. Needing a job she is told that her cousin, a bail bondsman, needs someone to help out in the office. But the only job openings he has are for skip tracers. She learns that Joe Morelli, a guy she knew intimately years ago, is one of the "skips". She eventually finds him but wasn't really prepared so he gets away. Another bounty hunter, Ranger, tries to teach her. Eventually she finds Morelli again, but he claims he is innocent of the crime he is accused of and he is trying to prove his innocence. Eventually Stephanie thinks he's telling the truth so she stakes out the person who can help him. She only finds herself in trouble and Morelli saves her. She tries to find someone who can prove his innocence, but the problem is that shortly after meeting with them they're killed or attacked.
After I had read the book, I found the movie was a perfect match. Both were entertaining, but not great. I had no problem with KH as Plum.<br/><br/>Here&#39;s my point by point comments. 1)KH as Plum was a good match. Everyone has their own vision of how someone looks, but I thought she matched the character in the book perfectly. She was very sexy. 2) Plum family was the weakest part of movie, but they were the weakest part of the book. 3) Joe &amp; Ranger filled the descriptions from the book very well. 4) I found no problems with any of the other characters.<br/><br/>This book was written for light recreational reading &amp; the movie was the same. I did not expect anything more.
As a heterosexual male, I am probably among the minority of those who have read Janet Evanovich&#39;s Stephanie Plum books. I&#39;m totally cool with that. I find the books funny enough without being degrading, intelligently written, and full of excellent, memorable characters. So I was more than a little leery when I heard that the first book in the series would be translated to the big screen, and even leerier when it was announced that perpetually petulant Katherine Heigl would play the lead role. I&#39;m happy to report that she&#39;s not miscast, that she has the Jersey attitude and look down very well (although perhaps still a little too pretty for how I&#39;d imagined Stephanie Plum). In fact, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Heigl actually elevated the movie - which she needed to do, because it&#39;s not a plot-heavy movie with strong special effects. <br/><br/>Stephanie Plum is down on her luck when we first meet her. She&#39;s just been fired as a lingerie saleswoman at Macy&#39;s. She lives in a lower- middle-class part of Trenton, New Jersey known as The Burg. She has a hectic family life. Her car&#39;s about to be repossessed, and she&#39;s behind on her rent. Her mom suggests she go work for her cousin Vinnie (Patrick Fischler), who owns a bail-bonds company. The opening is for file clerk - up Stephanie&#39;s alley - but turns out that&#39;s a dead end. All they have is bounty hunter, so our glamour gal takes the job. <br/><br/>Plum&#39;s first skip is a cop named Joe Morelli, who&#39;s suspected of shooting an unarmed man to death. If Steph can bring Morelli in, she gets 10% of the bond, which is $500,000. $50,000 can go a long way if you have bills to pay. Trouble is, there&#39;s a history between Plum and Morelli (Jason O&#39;Mara); seems that he took her virginity in high school and never called and that she ran him over with her car shortly thereafter. You know, normal stuff. Oh, but she&#39;s just in this for the money.<br/><br/>We meet some interesting characters along the way. One of Plum&#39;s coworkers is a freelancer named Ranger (Daniel Sunjata), who knows all, sort of a ninja who actually does use guns. And then there&#39;s Lula (Sherri Shepherd), the talkative hooker who can be bought off with snacks. For my money - no pun intended - the wackiest character in the book is Stephanie&#39;s Gramma Mazur, played here by the indomitable Debbie Reynolds, and although she&#39;s toned down a little for the movie, she still gets some of the funniest lines and scenes. <br/><br/>I think that, despite a fairly blah plot (and a sort of dumb ending - guts are figuratively spilled), the movie is indeed saved by Heigl. How this is possible is a mystery. I&#39;ve never liked her on-screen personas, but here she seems to be more immersed in the role than ever before. Hey, I am from New Jersey. I know Jersey girls. Heigl hits most of the notes pretty damn well. At no time - and this is no small feat - does she come across as a smart-ass, sexier-than-thou princess. Stephanie Plum the character is supposed to be cute/sexy, but not a goddess and most certainly not one with high self esteem. The screen version of her matches the book version fairly well.<br/><br/>This might be a movie that people can wait to watch at home. It&#39;s not necessarily a big-screen adventure, and I&#39;m glad the studio didn&#39;t promote it as one or insist on a lot of explosions (although there are some good ones). It doesn&#39;t deviate from its premise - cupcake takes on tough-guy job - and delivers exactly what it promises as a result. Heigl, for once, is much better than the script and keeps the movie afloat. Have to give credit where it&#39;s due. John Leguizamo and Fisher Stevens show up in small, but pivotal roles. O&#39;Mara, by the way, is a dead ringer for a young Mel Gibson, complete with charm. <br/><br/>One for the Money is a flawed movie. Some might argue that it takes way too little time for the girly girl Stephanie to know how to handle bad guys, including firearms. Some might say that its ending is predictable. They&#39;d all be right. But overall it&#39;s not as bad as I&#39;d expected.
Listlessly directed by Julie Anne Robinson (Miley Cyrus's The Last Song) from a script written by a trio of writers (Stacy Sherman, Karen Ray and Liz Brixius), One for the Money is tepidly glib throughout.
Yes, this film is based on the worldwide best-selling 18-book mystery series by Janet Evanovic.
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