Name this film.

October 30, 2010 1:23 AM

Name this film: for some reason why -- I can't remember -- the main character -- who I think works in a bank -- realises that there is a lot of money -- penny and cents -- in dormant accounts and sets about retrieving them and collecting them together I think for a charitable cause but it could be something more nefarious. Any ideas?
posted by feelinglistless to society & culture (13 answers total)

This may not be what you're looking for, but in Office Space the main characters band together with the intent to take the fractions of a cent left over from all the many transactions they handle and put it in a bank account to get rich.
posted by Night_owl at 1:42 AM on October 30, 2010 [2 favorites]

Superman III.
posted by Alex Voyd at 1:44 AM on October 30, 2010 [2 favorites]

Ha, thanks!
posted by feelinglistless at 1:55 AM on October 30, 2010

There's a couple of other examples in the Wikipedia article on salami slicing.
posted by Artw at 1:57 AM on October 30, 2010

In the Coen Bros movie, The Ladykillers, Professor G.H. Dorr tries to obscure his plan to rob a casino with a cover story about diverting pennies from bank accounts to his suspicious landlady's beloved Bob Jones University.
posted by jamaro at 1:58 AM on October 30, 2010

Sounds like exactly the plot of the (IMHO) rather good film How To Rob a Bank
posted by Biru at 3:10 AM on October 30, 2010

This is similar to one of the plot points in Entrapment as well, if I remember correctly.
posted by djgh at 5:07 AM on October 30, 2010

This is also the idea behind a plot point for the second season of the television show "Ghost in the Shell".
posted by Phalene at 6:35 AM on October 30, 2010

Isn't that what they do in the movie Hackers also?
posted by hermitosis at 8:43 AM on October 30, 2010

They just talk about it in Hackers.
posted by Mitheral at 9:36 AM on October 30, 2010

Wait, so which is the movie you had in mind?
posted by TheSecretDecoderRing at 12:34 PM on October 30, 2010

Found Money?
posted by dopeydad at 7:33 PM on October 30, 2010

This is also a real-life case which is often mentioned in computer ethics classes... that might be where some of these movies got the idea.
posted by vorfeed at 10:17 PM on October 30, 2010