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Lucky Numbers
Paramount Pictures
FILM:
MPAA 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.
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Adam Resnick
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Nora Ephron
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 20, 2001
Video: March 20, 2001
Theatrical: October 27, 2000
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / France |
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...
75
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
63
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.
63
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
An unsteady stab at noir.
63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
60
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
Amusing and at times uproarious.
58
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Tends to beat some plain unfunny material to death.
50
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.
50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Pretty funny caper comedy.
50
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.
50
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
50
USA Today
Andy Seiler
Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
50
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.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Clever and diverting dark comedy.
50
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
There's something refreshing about the way it invites us to splash around in its little wading pool of amorality.
50
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
50
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?
40
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.
39
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Whatever the amount on Roth's paycheck was, it's the only truly charmed sum Lucky Numbers has to offer.
30
Film.com
Robert Horton
Nasty, regularly amusing black comedy.
25
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
25
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.
25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
A few mildly amusing gags don't outweigh the trite situations and mean-spirited attitude of this comedy.
25
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
As lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
20
The New York Times
A.O. Scott
A weak-witted comedy.
20
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.
20
Time
Richard Schickel
Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
20
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Strictly a minor-league late fall entry.
10
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
10
LA Weekly
Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
0
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.
 The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
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