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Lucky Numbers

Generally unfavorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: Adam Resnick
Directed by: Nora Ephron
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 27, 2000
DVD: March 20, 2001
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / France
Summary
RATING: R for language, sexuality, some drug use and brief violence
Starring John Travolta, Lisa Kudrow, Tim Roth, Ed O'Neill, Michael Rapaport, and Bill Pullman
A television weatherman (Travolta), in need of cash, schemes to defraud the state lottery.
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
Ephron's attempt at dark humor isn't a complete payoff overall in Lucky Numbers, but it doesn't fail either.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Tends to beat some plain unfunny material to death.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Sara Wildberger
Lucky Numbers is like stuff bought at an outlet mall. Sure, it's got the brand names and designer labels, but the color's a little strange, the style a little off, and nothing fits just right.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The characters she (Ephron) invents are not very interesting, and aside from the always reliable Travolta, the performances are uniformly aligned.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
Read Full Review >USA Today Andy Seiler
Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
This invitation to look down upon the stupidity of numskulls is one that should be declined as swiftly as a call to poke fun at Special Olympians.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek
There's something refreshing about the way it invites us to splash around in its little wading pool of amorality.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Jay Carr
Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The plot becomes a juggling act just when it should be a sprint. And there's another problem: Is it intended as a comedy, or not?
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone Peter Travers
Ephron, try as she might, can't give her codified champagne spin to a Resnick script that all too quickly runs out of fizz.
Mr. Showbiz Cody Clark
Whatever the amount on Roth's paycheck was, it's the only truly charmed sum Lucky Numbers has to offer.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
Resnick's script never engages, the stars can't find the keys to their broadly played characters, and Ephron's direction is harrowingly out of sync.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
A few mildly amusing gags don't outweigh the trite situations and mean-spirited attitude of this comedy.
Read Full Review >Film.com Gemma Files
Ephron is still a director whose movies veer uncomfortably between the good -- make that adequate -- "You've Got Mail", the bad "This Is My Life" and the ugly Lucky Numbers. Pity.
Read Full Review >Time Richard Schickel
Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Melissa Anderson
From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 3.4 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
matt a. gave it a1:
same as blanco A. The only reason I see a Nora Ephron film is just to reconfirm to myself just how bad her movies really are.
Blanco A. gave it a 0:
Horribly painful to sit through. Completely unfunny & contrived. A steaming pile.
