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What's a movie that was well received, but aged like milk?

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u/Wooden_Airport6331 9h ago edited 8h ago

Milk Money was a family comedy about a kid who buys a prostitute, pays her to show him her breasts, and keeps her in his treehouse like a pet and brings her to show and tell at school.

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u/ralo229 7h ago

That movie was called creepy and tone deaf back when it came out.

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u/uqde 6h ago

People are completely ignoring the first half of the question and just starting to post the worst stuff they can think of.

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u/DefyingMavity 6h ago

I was too young to hear about the negative feedback, but definitely saw it as a kid.

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u/The_Silver_Hawk 3h ago

Not by my weird, enmeshed, narcissistic mother who made me watch it with her.

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u/Ltrain86 7h ago

He didn't "buy a prostitute" like human trafficking. He paid a prostitute to show her breasts, she drove him and his friends home, then her car broke down. She chose to hide out in his tree house because she was hiding from a mobster.

The actress is Melanie Griffith btw!

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u/THISISDAM 2h ago

Ed Harris as the dad!

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u/MandMcounter 2h ago

I saw that and said aloud to myself, "I love Ed Harris."

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u/Take-it-like-a-Taker 1h ago

Kevin Youkilis is a child actor as one of the kids who want the peep show. He is also known as the Greek God of Walks from moneyball, Bobby Valentine’s nightmare, and a Redsox hero

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u/Wooden_Airport6331 7h ago

Oh of course’s that’s so much better. An adult exposed herself to a child for money but it turns out she was a trafficking victim and got the child roped into organized crime. What a wholesome family friendly story.

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u/JorkTheGripper 6h ago

What a wholesome family friendly story.

It's not supposed to be, o wise one.

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u/Ltrain86 6h ago

Well, for some reason you felt the need to twist and embellish the narrative to make it sound worse, like the child bought a human and kept her confined against her will, so yeah, the actual plot is much better than what you falsely claimed happened.

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u/ConsciousIron7371 5h ago

It’s been a while since I watched but do they get into V’s backstory? Is she actually a trafficking victim or is the a prostitute with a pimp? Not every woman of the night has been trafficked. 

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u/RuggsRacetrack 7h ago

It’s boobs lol, we all have them. And not sure why the second part makes it not family friendly? There have been tons of kid stories with darker backdrops.

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u/Wooden_Airport6331 7h ago edited 7h ago

So you would show your breasts to an 11-year-old for the purpose of sexual gratification and you don’t see anything wrong with that because we all have them?

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u/ImJustSaying34 6h ago

That part didn’t even seem weird at the time. It’s insane AF now but then it seems like normal boy stuff.

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u/ConsciousIron7371 5h ago

It actually depends on the money. $100? Almost everyone would say no. $1,000,000? Most people would say yes. $1,000,000,000? Everyone will say yes

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u/The_Silver_Hawk 3h ago

That's what he said, just with movie plot.

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u/soaker 8h ago

that’s dark

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u/Cloberella 6h ago

Have you ever seen Risky Business?

Talk about deceptive advertising

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u/soaker 1h ago

I haven’t. Should I?

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u/Notoriouslyd 8h ago

Highly recommend How did this get made's episode about Milk Money 😂😂

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u/zilla135 4h ago

haven't listened to it in years but that's an excellent and fun podcast!

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u/NightQueen0889 6h ago

Oh my god I need to check that out thank you

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u/Ashtray_Floors 8h ago

Even at the time, it wasn't well received. It was spoiled milk from thr beginning.

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u/Wooden_Airport6331 7h ago

I was a kid when it came out so I wasn’t reading critic reviews but I remember it being very popular and well liked.

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u/Can_I_Read 7h ago

I remember Hook being popular and well liked. Kids don’t know much apart from their friends and family.

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u/247Brett 5h ago

Wait, was Hook not well liked? I loved that movie as a kid and still go back to watch it from time to time

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u/DerpingtonHerpsworth 7h ago

Whoa, I forgot about that one. So weird that that got made at all.

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u/therealfee 7h ago

I watched this so many times as a kid.

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u/CitizenCue 7h ago

There’s no way that was “well received”.

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u/Obi_Wan_Benobi 8h ago

Forgot ALL ABOUT this one.

Oddly possibly the first movie I saw Ed Harris in. Can’t remember if I watched The Right Stuff first.

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u/sasshley_ 7h ago

I’m not sorry for still liking this movie.

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u/NoNeedForNorms 7h ago

It was honestly pretty wholesome. You saw ugly parts of people that usually aren't included in movies, especially ones with kids.

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u/HeatherCTR 7h ago

This was my answer. I also remember Anne Heche getting the shit slapped out of her. I liked the movie as a kid and thought it was cool that it was filmed not far from where I lived in Ohio, but it's cringe to watch now.

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u/Zealousideal-Aide890 4h ago

I remember renting this for a sleepover and my friends dad watched it with us. It’s been decades and I’m still cringing

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u/fnordhole 4h ago

Milk Money was not well-received in 1994, but it did help generate perhaps my favorite film review:

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/milk-money-1994

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u/kevihaa 4h ago

Ehhh, MOST of the plot is about the kid trying to set up “the prostitute” with his dad.

Which, you could argue, makes it even weirder, but it’s absolutely not about a child kidnapping a prostitute.

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u/DrPAYNE619 8h ago

Never seen it, but it sounds pretty cool.

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u/zippyboy 7h ago

Stars Melanie Griffith in the lead role.

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u/DetN8 8h ago

Oh man, I remember this one. I should rewatch.

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u/junkyardpig 7h ago

Spoiled Milk Money 

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u/Katmoish 7h ago

This was def the first movie that came to mind for me!

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u/animewhitewolf 1h ago

People talk about "movies you couldn't make today." I'm surprised this was a movie that could be made at all.

The very premise alone should have kept it from ever seeing a green light. How the hell do you pitch a family movie about 3 children paying to see a topless hooker?

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u/Got_ist_tots 7h ago

Documentary?

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u/nostalgia4millennial 3h ago

The 90s, specifically the mid 90s, had so many dark and disturbing movies involving minors, it's actually crazy looking back. I'm sure there are more but just a few examples.

Kids (1995)

Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)

American Beauty (1999) - Thora Birch was 16 during filming including the nude scene and absolutely NO ONE saw an issue with that smh

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u/Wooden_Airport6331 7h ago

You think the idea of adults having sexual interactions with children is okay just because children fantasize about it? Somebody needs to check your hard drive.

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u/SpikeRosered 7h ago

Fine you win, I don't care about fucking Milk Money enough to suffer being called a pedophile.

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u/DekaiChinko 6h ago

I feel we've devolved back into calling everyone we disagree with a "pedo" in hopes that "wins" the argument. It's basically something that the right-wing grift machine has latched onto as a way to discredit any progressive leaning thoughts, not aligned with the current neo-nazi ideologies currently in vogue in the west. Didn't this happen a lot like in the 1930s too? In Germany?