Pure Luck

• Martin Short: Eugene Proctor
• Danny Glover: Raymond Campanella
• Harry Shearer: Monosoff
• Sheila Kelley: Valerie Highsmith
• Sam Wanamaker: Highsmith
• Scott Wilson: Frank Grimes

Pure Luck ( Original title: Pure Luck ), and Pure Luck - Stupid looking stupid, is an American film released in 1991 The movie is a remake of the French comedy The idiot and his draft horse (La chèvre ) from the year 1981..

Action

The Awkward millionaire's daughter Valerie Highsmith disappears after a losing streak during a Mexico vacation. My wealthy father then instructed the aging private investigator Ray Campanella, retrieve his beloved daughter. Campanella remain unsuccessful, Highsmith is convinced of the psychologists Monosoff thereof, to be accompanied Campanella to operating at Highsmith accountant Eugene Proctor, a similar Unlucky as Valerie and to start a second search.

In fact, there is a first track, as Procter head against the same glass door at the Mexican airport encounters as Valerie weeks previously in the hands of the American small-time crook Frank Grimes. As Procter is robbed and beaten up in a bar, Campanella investigated the robbers and comes across Grimes. This forces Campanella, to go with him and Procter. When they stop by a mishap Procter and shortly afterwards shoot the pursuing robbers Grimes, stated that that Valerie has only brought him misfortune.

The police informed Campanella that the robber chief Valerie has put on a plane that is to be crashed. Highsmith has at Campanella to rent a plane and fly off the aircraft route. Procter had an allergic reaction to a bee sting on the plane and is admitted after an emergency landing in a mission hospital. There he learns of a brand injured Indio, that their village was burnt by the fault of a woman. The Indio panics, as Campanella holds him the picture of Valerie 's face. The two -seekers drive into the village, Procter is informed of Campanella, that he was told by Highsmith just pretending, he acts as head of the investigation team. The infuriated Proctor lunges at Campanella, but abutted against the bumper of the jeep.

Proctor receives in a hospital a head bandage. He wakes up at the same time with the lying in the next bed, suffering from amnesia Valerie with the same head bandage. The two go outside on a wooden pier. While Campanella seeing from afar Valerie, aborts the end of the pier. In the last shot you can see how Valerie and Proctor are on the Molenteil and heading towards a waterfall.

Reviews

The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a "fairly weak remake of the French comedy" The idiot and his workhorse " "

The magazine Cinema described the film as a "passable parody of Hollywood buddy movies ".

Background

The film was shot in Mexico. His cost of production was estimated at 17 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 22.6 million U.S. dollars.