Lucky Numbers

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Lucky Numbers

R

Released Oct 27, 2000

1h 45m

Comedy

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Russ Richards (John Travolta) is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal (Lisa Kudrow) the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

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Nora Ephron's attempt at dark comedy is an uneven product, both in terms of the direction and the acting. The characters are unlikable to the point where you don't care what happens to them, and Ephron condescends to the material.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Not a great movie, and definitely not for kids.

Rated: 2/5

Dec 25, 2010

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Globe and Mail

Rated: 2/4

Mar 22, 2002

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Peter Travers

Rolling Stone

Rated: 2/5

May 8, 2001

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Daniel Barnes

Dare Daniel

Many gifted comedic actors flail their way miserably through this trite, tone-deaf nonsense.

Rated: 1/5

Dec 10, 2020

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Mike Massie

Gone With The Twins

Hysterically populated by scoundrels; they're all cheating, cursing liars on the verge of murder, though they're also of the deviously charming sort.

Rated: 7/10

Nov 6, 2020

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Bob Grimm

Sacramento News & Review

Rated: 3/5

Aug 7, 2008

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Steve D

Completely incompetent. Not one laugh to be found.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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Felix T

I can't believe the low rating for a funny movie. They delivered their lines spot on and accurately skewered the media, the police, and the whole concept of the lottery. What else do you want.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

08/20/22

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Audience Member

Nora Ephron's gap of skipped creativity resulted in seemingly uncaring direction towards a lazily mediocre story with agreeably unlikeable characters corrupted by greed with pitifully nonsensical desperation that molded pathetic performances from a nice cast sacrificing their dignity, and it's not enough for the satisfying payoff to save this unworthy picture. (C-)

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/17/23

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Audience Member

Dark "comedy" that isn't funny enough or dark enough. A lot of good actors are wasted.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Bill M

Okay, I'm not going to go into detail because it's over 5 years since I last saw this movie. (I've got it on videotape and no longer use the VCR). The only reason I'm posting a review is because I can't believe how low a rating this witty, original, intriguing and hilarious movie has gotten. If you liked Tin Cup you will love Lucky Numbers. There's never a dull moment. It's a comedy classic. I found it hilarious the first time I saw it and have laughed just as hard the other 3 or 4 times. In fact, I just watched the trailer, about 5 minutes ago, and laughed out loud. Again. John Travolta plays the movie version of the Roger Miller song, Kansas City Star. He's "the number one attraction/ In every supermarket parking lot." Actually he's the local TV news anchor with "his own table at Dennys". But the star of the movie is Lisa Kudrow, the TV weather person. If she was any stupider it would be illegal. If for no other reason this movie is worth seeing because Michael Moore (yes, that Michael Moore) makes a guest appearance playing basically himself. A despicable asthmatic nerd. Anyway, my work here is done...

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/17/20

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Audience Member

People need to lighten up and laugh at a hilarious comedy when they see it. It's what makes us human! I laughed my arse off

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Synopsis

Russ Richards (John Travolta) is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal (Lisa Kudrow) the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.

Director: Nora Ephron
Producer: Sean Daniel, Nora Ephron, Jonathan D. Krane, Andrew Lazar
Screenwriter: Adam Resnick
Distributor: DreamWorks SKG, Paramount Pictures
Production Co: Studio Canal, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Mad Chance
Rating: R (Drug Use|Brief Violence|Language|Sexuality)
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 27, 2000, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jul 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $10.0M
Runtime: 1h 45m
Sound Mix: Dolby Stereo, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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