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Lucky Numbers
Paramount Pictures

Lucky Numbers reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 31 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
3.0 out of 10
based on 30 reviews
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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  
WRITTEN BY: Adam Resnick  
DIRECTED BY: Nora Ephron  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 20, 2001 
Video: March 20, 2001 
Theatrical: October 27, 2000 
RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes, Color 
ORIGIN: USA / France 

What The Critics Said

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75
San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
When Travolta plays, everybody has a good time.
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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.
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63
San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
An unsteady stab at noir.
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63
Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
A comedy of bad manners with many punchy moments and many irritatingly glib ones.
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60
TV Guide Frank Lovece
Amusing and at times uproarious.
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58
Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy
Tends to beat some plain unfunny material to death.
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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.
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50
Chicago Reader Lisa Alspector
Pretty funny caper comedy.
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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.
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50
Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
At times, it's downright nasty; and that's when I like it best.
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50
USA Today Andy Seiler
Lucky Numbers is anything but lucky for stars John Travolta and Lisa Kudrow.
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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.
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50
Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Clever and diverting dark comedy.
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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.
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50
Boston Globe Jay Carr
Despite a few tangy black comic moments, Lucky Numbers' is bummer theater.
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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?
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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.
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30
Film.com Robert Horton
Nasty, regularly amusing black comedy.
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25
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
The laughs are few in this inert, ungenerous comedy.
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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.
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25
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
A few mildly amusing gags don't outweigh the trite situations and mean-spirited attitude of this comedy.
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25
New York Post Jonathan Foreman
As lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
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20
The New York Times A.O. Scott
A weak-witted comedy.
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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.
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20
Time Richard Schickel
Occasionally funny but mostly desperate, small-minded and uncompelling.
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20
Variety Todd McCarthy
Strictly a minor-league late fall entry.
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10
Village Voice Melissa Anderson
From the auteur who assaulted us with "Sleepless in Seattle" comes a more punishing film.
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10
LA Weekly Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
Airless, joyless, worse than you could even imagine.
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0
Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
Painfully lame and hamstrung by a viciously unfunny sense of humor.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 3.0 (out of 10) based on 4 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.

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