Lucky Numbers

Movie
German title	Lucky Numbers
Original title	Lucky Numbers
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2000
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Nora Ephron
script	Adam Resnick
production	Sean Daniel; Nora Ephron ; Jonathan D. Krane ; Andrew Lazar
music	George Fenton
camera	John Lindley
cut	Barry Malkin
occupation
	John Travolta : Russ Richards; Lisa Kudrow : Crystal; Tim Roth : Gig; Ed O'Neill : Dick Simmons; Michael Rapaport : Dale; Daryl Mitchell : Detective Chambers; Bill Pullman : Detective Pat Lakewood; Richard Schiff : Jerry Green; Michael Moore : Walter; Sam McMurray : Chief Troutman; Michael Weston : Larry; Maria Bamford : Wendy; Caroline Aaron : Sharpling; John F. O'Donohue : Bobby; Colin Mochrie : Jack;

Lucky Numbers (Alternative title on TV: Lucky Numbers - A Weather Frog On The Astray ) is an American comedy film from 2000 . Directed by Nora Ephron and written by Adam Resnick .

The story is based on an actual fraud against the Pennsylvania state lottery in 1980, which - unlike in the film - did not have a happy ending.

action

Russ Richards works as a weather expert for a local television station in Harrisburg . He is investing in a company that deals in snowmobiles , which is in financial difficulties due to the particularly warm winter. This development drives him into debt and could damage his reputation as a weather expert.

Richards and his friend Gig, a nightclub owner, develop a plan to defraud the state lottery as a target. Crystal, who is friends with the presenter - who also has an affair with his boss Dick Simmons - acts as an accomplice. After the plan succeeds, the station boss of the local broadcaster, Dick Simmons - who claims half of the loot - and other confidants blackmail the perpetrators. Richards sarcastically remarks that once the debts have been paid, he will only be in debt.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 27, 2000 that the film tells a too comprehensive story with too little energy (“tells too much story at not enough energy”). Introducing the characters is taking too long. There are funny moments, but also sad moments and brutal scenes - so it is uncertain whether the film will be conceived as a comedy.

“A dignified staged, but all too indecisive between macabre humor, slapstick and adolescent jokes, a crook comedy whose dialogues lack the necessary esprit. Also disappointing in terms of acting. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

John Travolta received the Golden Raspberry for Worst Actor in 2001 for this film and for Battlefield Earth .

backgrounds

The film was in Harrisburg and in many other places in Pennsylvania , in Arcadia ( California ), in Long Beach (the final scene) in (California) and Florida turned. Its production amounted to an estimated 65 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 10 million in US cinemas. In Germany there were around 23,000 moviegoers.

Web links

Lucky Numbers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Lucky Numbers at rotten tomatoes (English)
Lucky Numbers at Metacritic (English)
Lucky Numbers in the online film database
Lucky Numbers in the German synchronous file

Individual evidence

[1] 1980 Pennsylvania Lottery scandal in the English language Wikipedia

[2] Film review by Roger Ebert, accessed on December 21, 2007

[3] Lucky Numbers in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed December 21, 2007

[4] Filming locations for Lucky Numbers, accessed December 21, 2007

[5] Box office / business for Lucky Numbers, accessed December 21, 2007