Film
All the Money in the World
- Director
- Ridley Scott
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 133 mins
This one’s forever doomed to be known as the film Ridley Scott re-shot to expunge all trace of its original star Kevin Spacey after his alleged monstrous behaviour rendered him a Savile-style non-person, whose acting talent can no longer be acknowledged in those sections of polite society policed by the Twitter mob.
Busy octogenarian Christopher Plummer – recently seen as Scrooge in The Man Who Invented Christmas and heard as the voice of King Herod in The Star – took over the role of tightwad billionaire industrialist J. Paul Getty for this drama centred on the real-life kidnapping of the tycoon’s 16-year-old grandson, imaginatively named J. Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer, no relation), back in 1973. When the miserly old goat refuses to cough up a ransom demanded by the Italian crime syndicate responsible, the boy’s mother (Michelle Williams) joins forces with Getty’s advisor (Mark Wahlberg) in a desperate attempt to change the cold-blooded coot’s mind. Go here for our full review.
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