Pure Luck

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Tanya B Seen this movie so many times. It makes me laugh out loud all the time. Martin Short's humor is the best! Good comedy duo. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 10/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Hilarious and heartwarming story that pays homage to the stumbling, bumbling accident prone segment of the population. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/12/23 Full Review Audience Member A harmless and charming comedy. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 03/25/23 Full Review Steve D Not even a chuckle to be had. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member One of Becca's favorite movies, Pure Luck has Martin Short in the traditional role you know and enjoy him for, as a bad luck office worker who can't help but be overly sure of hismelf despite destroying everything in his path.  Directed by Nadia Tass and written by Francis Veber (it's based on his French movie La chèvre and it's not the only movie he made that got remade by Hollywood; there's also Le Grand Blond Avec une Chaussure Noire (The Man with One Red Shoe), L'emmerdeur (Buddy Buddy), La Cage aux Folles (The Birdcage), Le Jouet (The Toy), Les Comperes (Fathers' Day), Le Diner de Cons (Dinner for Schmucks) and Les Fugitifs ( Three Fugitives)), Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris. Short's Eugene Proctor is just as clumsy as his boss' missing daughter Valerie (Sheila Kelley), so a psychologist named Monosoff (Harry Shearer) decides that he'd be the perfect person to find her. To ensure that he doesn't screw up, he's assigned Raymond Campanella (Danny Glover) to the rescue trip to Puerto Vallarta. In an interview, Tass said, "It was successful in a financial sense but not in a satisfying sense. It was congenial doing a Martin Short comedy, but American comedy is different from Australian comedy. It is broader. American audiences enjoyed Pure Luck, but audiences in other countries did not enjoy it so much with the exception of the Germans. I wanted to do something else with the comedy and so did Danny Glover. I would like to have put a lot more pathos and pain into it. But they wanted a comedy for America."  He still gets residuals from the film, so there's that. It's a silly film that has a stand out scene with Short's face swelling up from a bee sting that never fails to make me laugh. Yeah, it's not much, but if you get one laugh from it, can it be that bad? Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member This is my all time favorite comedy. I've been watching it since I was 11 years old when it came out. It was my favorite then and favorite now. Martin Short is a genius. "Fish what I wanted!" "There's no quicksand in Mexico. Well congratulate me because I just found some." Watch it. You won't be sorry. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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