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Brewster's Millions
1985 · Film · 97 min
Directed by Walter Hill
Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
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Like Richard Pryor said as Montgomery Brewster in Brewster's Millions[0]:
"I don't want the interest. It's your vault. I should be paying YOU rent!"
[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/
> Scar Consumption for Life
Sounds like a good thing in a world where we over-consume almost everything?
I can't agree with some of the commentary in this thread about risk, drive and early poverty. Some of the wealthiest people started out dirt poor. They didn't like it and resolved to become rich. Plenty more started out spoiled rotten and grew up to be lazy minded with mediocre life outcomes.
"Brewster's Millions" is still a great film on this theme of growing a healthy relationship with money.
> A 180-foot superyacht and/or mega yacht costs a minimum of $4.75 million per year to operate and maintain. Kitty McGowan of the US Superyacht Association estimates an annual budget of $1 million for maintenance and repairs, $350,000 for dockage, $240,000 for insurance, $400,000 for fuel, and $1.4 million for the crew.
It's not hard to figure out how to hemorrhage cash. There was a movie about this - Brewster's Millions.
Some people and I have similarly been looking for a classical piece that appears in the movie Brewster's Millions for about ten years now:
https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue/comments/4nvuyp/tomt_5_years_standing_string_quartet_song_in_the/
Sounds like Son is trying to get rid of money? Reminds me of Brewster's Millions ( excellent film - can't go wrong with Pryor and Candy ). Maybe Son has to get rid of $100 billion to get $1 trillion?
For 2 years I went to sleep with Brewster's Millions (1985 not 1945) playing just loud enough I could hear the words from my desk speakers, would never take more than 10 minutes to be out cold.
Now I've just trained myself to go to sleep. I put my ear plugs in, tell Google to turn the speakers (so my phone charging doesn't make random noise through them) and my salt lamp off and I'm out within a minute or two.
> I just couldn't stop thinking about shit that was going on.
This was the issue. I had to learn how to just shut thoughts off. Not think of nothing, just not think. Watching a television show for an hour before bed (with the monitor color adjusted, whatever Chrome OS calls their version of f.lux) let's me get my mind off of whatever and then I'm in bed within a 5 minute window Sundays-Thursdays.
For some reason, reading this I had to think of the old movie "Brewster's Millions", as if this guy, too, had to get rid of all the money.
That's almost like Brewster's Millions, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088850/.
The most interesting part of 1921 is that the original(?) Brewster's Millions was released. In the original movie, the protagonist had to spend $2mil in a year and remain unmarried to inherit the full $10mil. By 1985, the remake dropped the marriage requirement (honestly, being a single rich guy in the 1980s wasn't too bad) and upped the spending requirement to $30 mil in 30 days to inherit $300 mil.
My, how times change. I wonder what Montgomery Brewster will have to do in 2049 to earn his inheritance.
Sneakers (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/8710). The film's aged a little, but it's nice to watch a fairly funny hacking film that doesn't dress up hacking into 3D flying GUIs, Hack the Planet or hacking a TLA with a gun put to your head, while getting head.
Brewster's Millions always cheers me up around Christmas, as does Trading Places (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/9749), both of which are slightly business related (although not exactly real-world related).
Someone else posted the pursuit of happyness (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/7605), when I stick that on it comes across as a bit schmaltzy for me but has a good message.
A beautiful mind (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/1112) is another great film about an incredibly smart but tortured genius who makes a massive contribution to economics.
Catch me if you can (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/1798) is based on the true story of a fraudster who ripped off banks for tons of money and did all kinds of amazing things with it. It's a great romp and I'd highly recommend a first watch.
Life is beautiful (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/5583) is hardly an uplifting film but is incredible and if it doesn't make you thankful for what you have, then I'd question whether or not you have a soul.