Mama's Millions

            The five awful adult children of a wealthy widow are fairly unmoved when they get word that their mother has finally died.  A Hollywood casting agent, a vicious investment banker, a corrupt district attorney, car-boosting junkie, and a washed-up Olympian, none of them ‘has time’ to make it out to her funeral, but they all make time in their busy schedules to attend the reading of the will at her old estate.  Perhaps one or two of them bring their significant others or spouses.  When they get there, they all sign documents excepting the entirety of her estate, but are then told that the only person who actually gets it is the winner of a contest that she has put together, and there to tell the rules… is their mother, not dead.

            The elderly woman greets her children and they all have dinner while she explains how proud she is to have raised such a savvy group of cut-throat individuals, so now, to prove who is the most worthy of her wolf-pack, they must compete in a twisted challenge.  They are each given sheet of paper containing their instructions, which involve them re-enacting childhood incidents in which they betrayed their mother, though now in order to get the keys into other rooms in the house, they have to betray each other.  Things get increasingly hostile, and after some physical fights and admissions of familial theft and worse crimes, they finally make it into the inner sanctum of the house.

            They have all had the opportunity to learn a lesson about how awful they have become as people, but of course, none of it appears to be sinking in.  Then the inheritance is finally made clear to them.  All their mother had was a mountain of debt, and now the most vicious of them has to pay it off.  Of course further fighting ensues, and ultimately the only child that has learned her lesson volunteers to take the debt herself.  The others are hardly grateful, and they depart.  Then, as the mother dies, she makes the survive promise to pay it all off herself.  The other’s don’t get any of it.  The ‘winner’ then realizes that in fact there was a great amount of money, hidden else in the house.  She finds it, and after reflecting that he twisted mother is the reason that they are so twisted, she decides not to obey her dying wishes, but instead she calls up her siblings and offers to share it.