Joey Coyle — Money for Nothing Character Profile

About Joey Coyle

Protagonist, a struggling South Philadelphia longshoreman who discovers a cart containing $1.2 million in cash and attempts to hide, launder, and flee with it.

Joey Coyle — Character Profile

Character Facts

Played by

John Cusack

Appears in

Money for Nothing (1993)

Role

Protagonist

Relationships (3)

• Joey Coyle — Professional Money Launderer — Dino Palladino (Benicio del Toro)

  Transactional relationship centered on illicit financial processing.

• Joey Coyle — Romantic Former Lover — Monica Russo (Debi Mazar)

  Rekindled romantic and financial partnership driven by desperation.

• Joey Coyle — Social Friend — Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport)

  Longtime friends with a strained dynamic due to Joey's criminal involvement.

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• Monica Russo (Debi Mazar)
• Detective Laurenzi (Michael Madsen)
• Dino Palladino (Benicio del Toro)
• Eleanor Coyle (Elizabeth Bracco)
• Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport)
• Cochran (Philip Seymour Hoffman)
• Madigan (Frankie Faison)
• Mrs. Breen (Alice Drummond)
• Hrbek (Lenny Venito)
• Bartender Lindey (Sam Coppola)
• Dunleavy (Currie Graham)
• Katie Coyle (Ashleigh Dejon)