Money for Nothing (1993)
Directed by Ramón Menéndez
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
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"Money for Nothing," the 1985 song by Dire Straits featuring Sting, opens the action comedy "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
Vaughn’s tongue is firmly in cheek as he opens the film to the strains of Sting’s “I Want My MTV” from Dire Strait’s “Money for Nothing,” and we watch a military raid in the Middle East, a prologue to set up the relationship between Colin Firth’s Harry Hart and Gary (“Eggsy”), the son of his fallen comrade.
Speaking of the music, Vaughn also makes great use of Mark Knopfler’s guitar riff from “Money for Nothing.”