He thought there was nothing as seductive as money.
He was wrong.
For Love or Money movie storyline. Doug Ireland is a concierge at the Bradbury, a luxurious hotel in New York City. Doug is very well-connected and is very good at his job, giving personal attention to guests like Harry Wegman while occasionally pocketing a big tip. Doug’s dream is to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island. He has saved every cent and obtained an option on an old hotel. But he only has a few weeks to begin development and needs at least $3 million immediately to start or the development goes back to the city.
Doug’s best chance is Christian Hanover, a somewhat unscrupulous billionaire. Christian considers the proposal and asks Doug to “take care” of his mistress, Andy Hart, a perfume saleswoman. Doug pretends to date Andy so that she can get close to Christian without his wife suspecting.
Doug learns that Christian is deceiving Andy about getting a divorce. But because his hotel proposal is urgent and Andy is old enough to make her own decisions, he doesn’t intervene. However, as he and Andy spend time together, he develops feelings for her.
Andy learns that a document Christian has asked Doug to sign was intended to permit the billionaire to take over the hotel project and force Doug out. Christian reveals that an IRS agent who was tailing Doug about the real estate property he (Doug) bought until he (Christian) and his lawyers took care of it was actually working with Christian to get the property.
Christian smugly tells Andy that the project was going to make a fortune and he wasn’t going to share it with a mere concierge. Andy abandons him for Doug, who is chasing after her. After the two reunite at the Queensboro Bridge and reveal to each other about the deception, Doug never signed the document, so Christian can’t take over the property.
For Love or Money (also released as The Concierge) is a 1993 American romantic comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Michael J. Fox and Gabrielle Anwar. It was not a commercial success domestically in North America, earning less than half its production budget before being withdrawn from theatres after just four weeks of release.[1] The film was unofficially remade into Hindi as Yes Boss and then into Tamil as Guru En Aalu.
For Love or Money (1993)
Directed by: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Gabrielle Anwar, Anthony Higgins, Bob Balaban, Michael Tucker, Isaac Mizrahi, Patrick Breen, Susan Blommaert, Dianne Brill, Dan Hedaya
Screenplay by: Mark Rosenthal, Lawrence Konner
Production Design by: Peter S. Larkin
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Jim Miller
Costume Design by: Susan Lyall
Set Decoration by: Leslie E. Rollins
Art Direction by: Charley Beal
Music by: Bruce Broughton
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release Date: October 1, 1993
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