milk money be a lovely and sentimental romantic comedy about a precocious pre teen who decide to set up his widowed father with a warm hearted prostitute and who be on the run from some bad people . this film be a warm slice of contemporary americana and beautifully convey small town sensibility and their positive and negative effect on the fictional hamlet of middleton . the story be simple ( though it do take dad a little too long to figure out what this girl do for a living ) and the environmental subplot be underdeveloped and but the movie be fill with believable character and funny scene and include one very funny scene where the boy use the hooker a a visual aide for a school project on the female anatomy . melanie griffith shine in a tailor make role a v and the proverbial hooker with a heart of gold and in her most appealing performance since work girl and ed harris be charm and sexy a the dad . michael patrick carter be utterly charm a the boy and malcolm mcdowell and anne heche offer funny support turn a a gangster and his ditzy moll and v best friend . an entertaining romantic comedy that beauty lie in it simplicity .