How to come up with cash in a hurry

More than a third of Americans couldn’t come up with $400 in an emergency—and the difficulty of finding cash goes up with the dollar amount. Here are some ways to get money quickly that you probably haven’t thought of.

The 2001 Tilda Swinton film The Deep End features a scene that has stuck with me for nearly 25 years, even though I’ve forgotten almost everything else about the movie. Swinton’s character is being blackmailed for $50,000 and is given 24 hours to come up with the cash. Although her character is shown to live a comfortable, upper-middle-class life, she spends a stressful day on the phone trying to find the money—and she misses the deadline.