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  • 1991
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 1991
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could...

Directed By: Nadia Tass

Written By: Francis Veber, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris

  • 1991
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 1991
  • PG
  • Universal Pictures
  • 1 h 36 m

Pure Luck

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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Summary The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could...

Directed By: Nadia Tass

Written By: Francis Veber, Herschel Weingrod, Timothy Harris

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
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Generally Unfavorable Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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38% Mixed
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50% Negative
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If you've already seen the preview trailer, you've probably seen the funniest gags anyway. [09 Aug 1991, p.22]
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Director Nadia Tass is an Australian film maker making her U.S. debut, and she does a good job of handling the male bonding. But, this becomes a road movie with too much rambling. [09 Aug 1991, p.F1]
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Martin Short can do anything, it seems, except find the right movies to star in.
By Caryn James FULL REVIEW
38
Like fellow SCTV alumnus John Candy, Short has been shortchanged by the big screen. If anyone deserves a change of Luck, he does. [09 Aug 1991, p.5D]
By Susan Wloszczyna FULL REVIEW
38
This take, like so many Hollywood takes on French comic originals, is diligent, but, with too few exceptions, irredeemably soggy. [09 Aug 1991, p.42]
By Jay Carr FULL REVIEW
25
Predictably impersonal and uninspired.
By Dave Kehr FULL REVIEW
16
Just about unwatchable — a numbingly repetitive farce in which the cursed Short trips, walks into walls, trips, spills an entire saltshaker onto his breakfast, trips, sets people on fire, trips…
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Hivemind, Silver Lion Films, Universal Pictures
Release Date Aug 9, 1991
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating PG
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Tagline Somewhere on the Mexican Riviera, a beautiful, rich heiress has gone missing. Only one man can find her. Unfortunately, they sent two.
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