Lucky Numbers

Lucky Numbers ( Alternative title on TV: Lucky Numbers - A weatherman gone astray ) is an American comedy film from 2000 directed by Nora Ephron wrote the screenplay Adam Resnick. .

The story is based on an actual case of fraud against the state lottery of Pennsylvania in 1980, in which - unlike in the movie - but was no happy ending.

Action

Russ Richards works as a weather expert a local television station in Harrisburg. He invested in a trading snowmobile company that 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 with the fraud, the state lottery as a target. The friend of the presenter Crystal - which also has an affair with his boss Dick Simmons - acts as an accomplice. Which calls for half the loot - - After the plan is successful, the transmitter head from the local radio station, Dick Simmons blackmail and other confidants the perpetrators. Richards noted sarcastically that only debt it would remain after the settlement of claims.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times October 27, 2000, the film tells a comprehensive story on too little energy ( " tells too much story at not enough energy" ). The introduction of the characters takes too long. There were funny moments, but also sad moments and brutal scenes - so was unsure whether the film would be designed as a comedy.

The lexicon of the International film wrote that the film was a "sound staged, but too indecisive between macabre humor, slapstick and adolescent jokes swinging caper comedy ". The dialogues lacked " the necessary Esprit ", the representations were disappointing.

Awards

John Travolta was awarded in 2001 for this film and for Battlefield Earth - Battlefield Earth the Razzie as Worst Actor.

Background

The film was ( the last scene ) shot in Harrisburg and in numerous other places in Pennsylvania, in Arcadia ( CA ), Long Beach (California ) and in Florida. His cost of production was estimated at 65 million U.S. dollars. The film played in the cinemas of the United States a 10 million U.S. dollars. In Germany, there were approximately 23,000 moviegoers.

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