But I just read that the film had around a $15 million dollar budget and it made $40,227,000 at the box office stateside, so that means Mo'Money had around a $25 million dollar profit based on budget and box office take. Plus it was number one it's opening weekend. Hope this helps.
We must be of the same age bracket because I was 9 years old when this film came out but my mom didn't take me to see the film in 1992 when it came out. But since the late 1990s I have seen the film so many times in syndication or on premium movie channels.
And you're so right, Mo'Money is one of the quintessential urban/Black films of the 1990s, in terms of dress, music, and slang. Big Daddy Kane had a great song that was used in the Film called "A Job Aint Nuthin But Work," a quintessential New Jack Swing song.
And yes jackson219, this film would have been better (even tough I love the film dearly) if it wasn't for the gratuitous violence.
This movie was supposed to be Damon Wayans' entry into movie stardom and I think he got a serious hard-on for said movie stardom at the time he was writing and producing the film and this hard-on brought the film down in some respects.
Wayans and other Black comedians who were hungry at the time (late 1980s through early 1990s period), wanted the success that Eddie Murphy was enjoying and it clouded their career paths so to speak.
Mo'Money could have been so much more for Damon and it just still gets to me how that man didn't become a movie star in the 1990s.
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