Lucky Break

Name: Lucky Break
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Crime
Released: April 5, 2002
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Frank Harper, Ron Cook

2002

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: April 5, 2002 | PG-13

Starring: Frank Harper, Ron Cook

Summary: A comedy about a prison escape with a musical twist. (Paramount Pictures)

Director: Peter Cattaneo

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance, Crime

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 108 min

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Michael O'Sullivan

Apart from the deja vu all over again, Lucky Break is no worse a film than "Breaking Out," and "Breaking Out" was utterly charming. Read full review

Roger Ebert

There is not much here that comes as a blinding plot revelation, but the movie has a raffish charm and good-hearted characters, and like "The Full Monty" it makes good use of the desperation beneath the comedy. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

It's what the Brits themselves might call fair to middling. Read full review

Loren King

The movie moves predictably to its feel-good finale. Read full review

Loren King

The movie moves predictably to its formulaic finale, which -- unwittingly perhaps -- reprises Plummer's own sugary classic, ''The Sound of Music.'' Read full review

Jack Mathews

Without the surprise, realism, audacity and upstart cheekiness -- pun intended -- that made "The Full Monty's" blue-collar strippers so irresistible.

Derek Elley

Chained to the floor by a script that isn't particularly funny, direction that goes for realism rather than stylization and an almost complete lack of comic timing. Read full review

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TerryH

May 20, 2008

This was a great movie. Don't listen to the critics.

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 23, 2021

I found this really quite funny. There's a good cast with a number of well known British actors, including James Nesbitt, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy. The plot is amusing and of course some of the scenes/situations are somewhat unlikely (aka absurd) but thats where most of the comedy comesI found this really quite funny. There's a good cast with a number of well known British actors, including James Nesbitt, Timothy Spall and Bill Nighy. The plot is amusing and of course some of the scenes/situations are somewhat unlikely (aka absurd) but thats where most of the comedy comes from.

I enjoyed listening to James Nesbitt singing along, as he rehearsed the play that the film centres on the convicts putting on. I thought James 'Jimmy' Hands was quite a likeable character. I suppose in a way I admired the sense of naive optimism shown by some characters. Its an easy and enjoyable watch - one I'd recommend.… Expand

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