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Other People's Money

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Other People's Money	label	Other People's Money
Other People's Money	page	OtherPeoplesMoney
Other People's Money	comment	A 1991 romantic comedy-drama film adapted from Jerry Sterner's 1989 off-Broadway play of the same name, directed by Norman Jewison and starring Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck (in his last major film role), and Penelope Ann Miller.Lawrence Garfield, otherwise known as "Larry the Liqudator" (DeVito), is an apparently heartless—but secretly lonely—corporate raider launching a hostile takeover of a small Rhode Island company that makes wire and cable. The son of the founder of the company, Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson (Peck), reaches out to his stepdaughter Kate (Miller), an attorney, to stop him. Larry soon becomes smitten with Kate, leading him to try and beat her and woo her at the same time.
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Other People's Money / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Other People's Money / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: Larry claims the only thing he loves more than money is other people's money. Larry uses a shell corporation in his takeover schemes called OPM. Which stands for... Andrew Jorgenson also gets one in when he derisively accuses Larry of "playing God with other's people's money."
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Other People's Money / int_1b06aa41	type	Villains Never Lie
Other People's Money / int_1b06aa41	comment	Villains Never Lie: As much as Larry Garfield can be considered a villain, at least, but he is notable for being completely honest and forthright with his intentions and his actions, and avoiding any truly ruthless or underhanded methods when it comes to getting what he wants.
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Other People's Money / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Other People's Money / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: When Larry asks Kate why she does not like him, she tells him that he is not nice. He all but quotes this trope in his reply:
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Other People's Money / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Other People's Money / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: Carmen, Larry's computer that gives him data on stock trades. He talks about it, and to it, like it's a real woman, even reaching over and touching it like a wife after he wakes up one morning.
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Other People's Money / int_298a9d75	type	Detrimental Determination
Other People's Money / int_298a9d75	comment	Detrimental Determination: By sticking to an archaic and ineffective set of values, Jorgy makes it nearly impossible for his step-daughter and attorney to do her job, and loses control of his company.
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Other People's Money / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Other People's Money / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: In the original play, Larry's last name is the very Jewish-sounding Garfinkle.
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Other People's Money / int_2c27353f	type	Was It Really Worth It?
Other People's Money / int_2c27353f	comment	Was It Really Worth It?: After he wins the vote, Larry watches Kate leave sadly and goes home depressed, clearly thinking this trope as he sadly tells Carmen that they won again.
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Other People's Money / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Other People's Money / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: When Jorgy's wife attempts to bribe Larry with her life's savings to leave them alone. Larry not only rejects it but seems genuinely offended that she expected him to take it, comparing it to stealing from orphans and widows. He's also notable in that he is completely honest with his intentions and actions, and much like Jorgy doesn't compromise his integrity to get what he wants. He's a corporate raider, but he's an honest corporate raider. Of course, part of that may be due to the fact that the wire and cable company's situation is so bad that he doesn't need to lie to get what he wants.
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Other People's Money / int_31e92640	type	Japan Takes Over the World
Other People's Money / int_31e92640	comment	Japan Takes Over the World: This is what Larry claimed to be worried about when he said he encouraged his employees to learn Japanese.
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Other People's Money / int_3322dd48	type	Hollywood Law
Other People's Money / int_3322dd48	comment	Hollywood Law: In the film, Kate never suggests to Jorgy some of the most common anti-takeover defenses, notably the poison pill or the crown jewel defense, which would have stopped Larry in his tracks. In the play, she recommends these methods, but Jorgy rejects them because they'd compromise the integrity of his company. In the film, Jorgy rejects the idea of reincorporating in a more favorable state, for much the same reasons.
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Other People's Money / int_41d0640b	type	Hello, Attorney!
Other People's Money / int_41d0640b	comment	Hello, Attorney!: Kate. See also Male Gaze below.
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Other People's Money / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Other People's Money / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: A rare in-universe example. Larry is seen as the villain by most of the characters in the film, because he's ruthless and rich and trying to make money by breaking up a small, old-fashioned business. But when we actually listen to him, he makes the very good point that the company, though well-intentioned, has been losing its stockholders' money for years, it will eventually go bankrupt anyway due to technological obsolescence, and this is the only way for the stockholders to get some of their money back.
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Other People's Money / int_75d6bf40	type	Belligerent Sexual Tension
Other People's Money / int_75d6bf40	comment	Belligerent Sexual Tension: Lots of it between Larry and Kate.
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Other People's Money / int_7a555627	type	Honest Corporate Executive
Other People's Money / int_7a555627	comment	Honest Corporate Executive: As with Corrupt Corporate Executive, this trope is fully deconstructed. Gregory Peck perfectly fits the role of an old-fashioned, honest and sincere CEO who cares deeply about the business his grandfather started, and cares more about the business and its employees than about making money for himself. But this very commitment blinds him to the decline of the company. He remains stuck in magical thinking that things are about to turn around, and his traditionalist mindset keeps him from innovating or seeking out new markets to keep the business relevant. It even makes him helpless against Larry's hostile takeover, because he refuses to pursue any tactic that feels underhanded.
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Other People's Money / int_7e472269	type	Obsolete Occupation
Other People's Money / int_7e472269	comment	Obsolete Occupation: Discussed. "You know, at one time there must've been dozens of companies making buggy whips. And I'll bet the last company around was the one that made the best goddamn buggy whip you ever saw."
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Other People's Money / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Other People's Money / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Downplayed. Bill Coles only gets half of the million dollars he was promised for his company shares. On the other hand, he at least has a bit of cold comfort for his conscience in the knowledge his vote wouldn't have made a difference in the end anyway.
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Other People's Money / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Other People's Money / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: For all intents and purposes, Larry Garfield is a hilarious and less malicious version of old Mr. Potter from It's A Wonderful Life, a greedy corporate executive driven by the accumulation of personal wealth even at the expense of destroying the economy of an entire town. However, unlike Potter or even Gordon Gekko, Larry avoids being typecast as an irredeemable villain by being a Reconstruction rather than a straight line example of the classical Corrupt Corporate Executive. YMMV on whether he is a villain at all. He is certainly not at all corrupt.
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Other People's Money / int_90c018ac	type	Justified Trope
Other People's Money / int_90c018ac	comment	It's rare for a corporation's stock to trade below the sale value of its assets. In 1949 Benjamin Graham wrote about the advantages of "net-nets", and they were promptly hunted to extinction. In real life, such a company would likely be taken over long before the stock value dropped so low. This is ultimately justified by the fact that the company is run more like a family business than a corporation, with the president, the board and the employees collectively holding 30% of the stock, and president aggressively opposed to selling.
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Other People's Money / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Other People's Money / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: Jorgy insists that the company will be profitable again when demand for infrastructure repair increases. Larry believes demand will never increase because wire and cable was rendered obsolete by fiber-optics and liquidating the company is the only responsible course of action. In the end, Kate convinces Larry that the company can be profitable by telling him that wire and cable can be used to make airbags.
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Other People's Money / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
Other People's Money / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: Notably subverted. The film pits a wealthy corporate raider played by Danny Devito against a hard-working, old-fashioned, New England factory owner who genuinely cares about his employees and his family business and is played by Gregory Peck. At the climax of the film, Gregory Peck makes an impassioned speech about industry and America, about honor and old-fashioned values. His opponent counters with a speech about how he can make the stockholders more money... and wins easily. Although after he wins, it's heavily implied that he'll let Kate talk him into selling the company back to its employees so they can make airbags. But even that actually enforces his whole argument. The company, under Jorgy wasn't adapting and moving forward. He was sitting back and waiting/hoping for outside forces to change and improve the situation.
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Other People's Money / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Other People's Money / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Larry loves doughnuts. He always brings a box to every meeting.
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Other People's Money / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Other People's Money / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Kate is dressed professionally but in very tightly fitting wardrobe. More overt during Kate's first date with Lawrence, and later when she is on her way to an opera.
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Other People's Money / int_b7b1aa73	type	And Then What?
Other People's Money / int_b7b1aa73	comment	And Then What?: Kate asks Larry this. He responds, astounded: Of course, by the end of the film, Larry is no longer happy just making more money (if he ever was), because he is in love with Kate.
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Other People's Money / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Other People's Money / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: At the end of the film, Larry and Kate arrange to meet to discuss her proposal. Kate insists on a formal business lunch, which Larry prepares for as a date. There's no confirmation something will happen but she's still clearly charmed by him so it's possible.
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Other People's Money / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Other People's Money / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Larry the Liquidator (type 1). Yes, he's greedy, materialistic, lecherous, and ruthless in his pursuit of money. However, unlike similar characters he pursues wealth in entirely legal ways, refuses to take bribes from those he targets, and — since he's played by Danny Devito — if you're not in one of the companies he's trying to liquidate he actually seems like a fun guy to know.
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Other People's Money / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Other People's Money / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Or at least Ugly Guy, Hot Love Interest, as we're supposed to think that Penelope Ann Miller might fall for Danny DeVito. In the original play, the characters do wind up getting married.
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Other People's Money / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Other People's Money / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: Larry and Jorgy have fundamentally opposed views of what a business is for and how it ought to be run, but neither is wrong. One of the great things about the film is that it avoids the easy moralizing of portraying Jorgy as right and Larry as wrong. They are both right.
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Other People's Money / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Other People's Money / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: A reconstruction. Sure Larry's actions might seem ruthless but there's no malice behind them. He just wants to make money, which he does in an entirely legitimate and legal fashion. Neither does he have the overwhelming disdain for those beneath him that is a hallmark of the character type.
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Other People's Money / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Other People's Money / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: Andrew "Jorgy" Jorgenson. If Larry is a reconstruction of the Corrupt Corporate Executive, then Jorgy is a deconstruction of the Honest Corporate Executive; effectively making Jorgy the George Bailey to Larry's Mr. Potter.
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Other People's Money / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
Other People's Money / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Used in Larry and Kate's first meeting (literally, a Hello, Attorney!).
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Other People's Money / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Other People's Money / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: This is essentially Larry's argument to the stockholders in the climax; the company's dead, it's going to be dead with or without him, so they might as well get out with a bit of money by going with him rather than the nothing they'll get when it eventually does fold for good.
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Other People's Money / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
Other People's Money / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: Both Jorgy and Larry in their big speeches. Jorgy talks about how the wire and cable industry will recover when the dollar is a little stronger and the yen is a little weaker; actually, that would just mean that an American company like his would get priced out of the market by its Japanese competitors. On the other hand, Larry says that the fastest way to go broke is to have an increasing share of a shrinking market; that's true if and only if the market shrinks away to nothing, which is unlikely to happen for products like wire and cable. Otherwise, having an increasing share of a shrinking market is a way to become spectacularly profitable, since it eliminates all your competitors. It's rare for a corporation's stock to trade below the sale value of its assets. In 1949 Benjamin Graham wrote about the advantages of "net-nets", and they were promptly hunted to extinction. In real life, such a company would likely be taken over long before the stock value dropped so low. This is ultimately justified by the fact that the company is run more like a family business than a corporation, with the president, the board and the employees collectively holding 30% of the stock, and president aggressively opposed to selling.
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Other People's Money / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Larry tells Kate over dinner how a cheerleader broke his heart in high school.
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Other Peoples Money	seeAlso	Other People's Money
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Other People's Money	hasFeature	Underdogs Never Lose / int_f2544e52

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