Twenty Bucks is a 1993 American comedy-drama film directed by Keva Rosenfeld and starring Linda Hunt, Brendan Fraser, Gladys Knight, Elisabeth Shue, Steve Buscemi, Christopher Lloyd, William H. Macy, David Schwimmer, Shohreh Aghdashloo and Spalding Gray.

The baker sells an expensive pair of figurines for a wedding cake to Jack Holiday and gives him the bill as change.

After flying out of the box from the back seat of Emily's convertible, the bill floats around town, and is picked up by a homeless man who uses it to buy groceries.

The bill is given as change to a wealthy woman who uses it to snort cocaine off the back of her stretch limousine, although she leaves it on her car, where it is picked up by her drug dealer.

The drug dealer also runs a day camp for youth, and he puts the bill into a fish where it is caught by a teen who has it converted to quarters and uses them to call a phone sex hotline in a bowling alley.

Sam is also at the airport, waiting for a flight to Europe and having a drink with Jack, with the two clearing up the misunderstanding over the $20 bill on good terms.

[2] It was originally written by Endre Bohem in 1935, but was never filmed; his son, Leslie, discovered it in the 1980s and revised it, modernizing the language and some of the plot.

[6] The scene where Angeline captures the bill was filmed on North 4th Street in downtown Minneapolis, in front of Fire Station No.

The bill floats near the Mississippi River just above St. Anthony Falls;[7] over the 3rd Avenue Bridge; and past the E-Z Stop gas station at 1624 Washington Ave. North.

"[4] Ebert was so engrossed by Christopher Lloyd's performance that he almost forgot about the film's title object,[Note 3] and liked the movie as a whole while acknowledging its vignette construction.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times dubbed the film, "A charming, offbeat tale shaped whimsically by the hand of fate.

Rosenfeld manages to take a premise that is all contrivance and make it seem natural, as if every bit of legal tender had such a colorful life."

Ty Burr of Entertainment Weekly said "Rosenfeld impressively summons up the ghosts of Capra and Sturges while keeping this tale firmly in the here and now.

"[9] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote, "Thanks to director Keva Rosenfeld, a documentary filmmaker, its story seems to come about serendipitously.

The film's pace, bouncy as Lotto balls in a tank, adds to the lightheartedness of this surprisingly droll look at the cost of living.