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  • 2008
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 55 m

Summary T.K. Poole, Colee Dunn and Fred Cheever arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From there, the other two plan...

Written By: Dirk Wittenborn

  • 2008
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 55 m
  • 2008
  • R
  • Lionsgate Films
  • 1 h 55 m

The Lucky Ones

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
53
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 9 User Ratings
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Summary T.K. Poole, Colee Dunn and Fred Cheever arrive in New York from Germany only to find their connecting flights canceled due to a power outage. Anxious to get to their respective destinations, they agree to share a rented minivan to suburban St. Louis where Cheever is to reunite with his wife and teenage son. From there, the other two plan...

Written By: Dirk Wittenborn

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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48% Positive
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44% Mixed
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8% Negative
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75
This movie has its own emotional sorcery. In a raw, humorous way, it grasps how hope and desperation spur magical thinking and, sometimes, real magic.
By Michael Sragow FULL REVIEW
70
Because the lead actors work so well together, adding depth and levels of vulnerability to fairly underwritten roles, the emotional consequences of the sense of displacement these "lucky" characters -- lucky to be alive, lucky to have met one another -- must deal with always ring true.
By Laura Kern FULL REVIEW
63
As close as a movie about three Iraq war soldiers should come to mediocre TV comedy.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
58
It's not a political film, but it's also not a bland recitation of homilies about the honor of serving one's country. It's a jokey road movie, in which three soldiers heading home from Iraq are forced into a cross-country van ride together.
By Marc Mohan FULL REVIEW
50
If this is meant to look fresh while still being sensitive, it doesn't and it isn't.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
50
This moderately engaging, offbeat film requires a patience that audiences haven't demonstrated recently for stories concerning the fate of soldiers at home or abroad.
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25
Cheap, ignorant, tone-deaf and condescending, but what's strangest about it is that it actually thinks it's pro-soldier even as it portrays vets home on leave as foolish (Rachel McAdams), desperate (Tim Robbins) and dishonorable (Michael Pena) while playing all three situations for laughs.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lionsgate Films, Roadside Attractions, QED International, Sherazade Film Development, Visitor Pictures, Overnight
Release Date Sep 26, 2008
Duration 1 h 55 m
Rating R
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Tagline Sometimes losing your way home means finding yourself
Website http://www.theluckyonesmovie.com/
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