Because while bartenders, drug dealers, people selling used cars, etc., will check a hundo, “nobody” holds $20 bills up to the light. The idea is wash one dollar bills and re-print them into twenties. And “Sound travels on water, man.” These guys are getting greedy and sloppy. The script cleverly shows this process in a short opening montage, and only explains it “six months later” as Bridger’s operation has taken on lots of friends, a reasonably careful counterfeit laundering (Hah!) operation and a Carver motor yacht where the deed is done.īut “loose lips sink ships,” as they used to say in WWII. That’s how he can round up cancer-fighting cash.

They’re broke, but desperation joins inspiration when Bridger brushes his hair aside and notices what happened to the bills in his pocket. Mom has been sick, and then she tells him “My cancer came back.” lives-with-his-mom and fusses at the way she does his laundry. Even when you write and direct it, have characters call your character “hot” and play with your luxuriant locks like a model told to “work it” by her favorite photographer.īryce Hirschberg wrote, directed and stars as Bridger, Mr. So there’s no such thing as a “vanity project” in the movies. Most film actors figure out the need to “make your own breaks” at some point. Think of it as a calling card designed to advertise its remake potential, with a bigger budget, “name” cast and a rewrite or two.

“Counterfeiters” is an ambitious, abridged thriller about a hustler who figures out a DIY way of making funny money.Ī short, low-budget affair, it’s more of a prospectus than a polished, finished feature.

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