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Just My Luck

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Just My Luck (2006)

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Reviews Counted:29

Fresh:4

Rotten:25

Average Rating:3.9/10

Consensus: Just My Luck is a screwball rom-com that fails to take advantage of Lindsay Lohan's considerable charm. The film (along with Robert Altman's A Prairie Home Companion) marks the end of Lohan's teen queen phase as she begins playing characters that are older, but not necessarily wiser. Lohan's character is supposedly cursed with bad luck, though the movie confuses misfortune with plain stupidity, leading Lohan into a long series of silly and senseless physical gags.

Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for some brief sexual references

Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:May 12, 2006 Wide

Box Office: $17,229,124

Synopsis: Ashley Albright (LINDSAY LOHAN) is the luckiest woman in the world, a person to whom all the good things in life have come far too easily. She can pick a lottery ticket at random and hit the... Ashley Albright (LINDSAY LOHAN) is the luckiest woman in the world, a person to whom all the good things in life have come far too easily. She can pick a lottery ticket at random and hit the jackpot. In New York, the world's busiest city, Ashley never has to wait for a cab. And she has a terrific job as an account exec at a prestigious public relations firm. Everything goes Ashley's way. And now, she's been given a great opportunity to advance her career: she is to plan a masquerade ball in downtown Manhattan for record mogul Damon Phillips (Faizon Love) and his company. Jake (CHRIS PINE), on the other hand, is a bad luck magnet. His skies are always raining; his pants are always on the verge of splitting at the seams. His job is cleaning toilets at a bowling alley. But even a steady bombardment of catastrophes doesn't dim Jake's dreams. He thinks he may have his chance at the brass ring with his discovery of a rock band McFly. If Jake can keep his bad luck at bay for just one night, he'll sneak into a masquerade ball and get McFly's CD into the hands of music titan Damon Phillips. On this night when dreams can be made or broken, fate brings Ashley and Jake together on the dance floor. Instantly taken with one another, they share an electrifyingly kiss – and with that one kiss, their luck switches places. Suddenly, Ashley's dress rips. Her heel breaks. Her good luck seems to have finally run out. Jake, in his rush to catch Phillips before he leaves, ends up saving the record mogul's life and earning with that one simple twist of fate, the chance to make all his dreams come true. As Ashley desperately races to regain the luck she blithely took for granted, she begins to see that it's not so much having good luck but what you do with it that counts, and that her greatest chance of redemption lies with the guy who holds the key to her sudden change of fate. --© 20th Century Fox [More]

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Chris Pine, Samaire Armstrong, Faizon Love, Chris Carmack, Carlos Ponce, Teddy Castellucci

Director: Donald Petrie

Director: Donald Petrie
Screenwriter: Jonathan Bernstein, James Greer, Mark Blackwell
Producer: Arnon Milchan, Bruce Willis
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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... a variation on Freaky Friday buffed with a bit of 13 Going on 30's yuppie-career-princess gloss.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/20/06
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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... a real piece of junk.

Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper | comment Comment
05/16/06
Richard Roeper
Richard Roeper
Ebert & Roeper
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It's safe, competent and bland.

Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | comment Comment
05/13/06
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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From my perspective, it's watchable, but barely, and nothing I would go out of my way to locate, even if going 'out of my way' represents using a remote control to change TV channels.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
05/13/06
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Word on the street -- we're not sure which street -- has it that Just My Luck is Lindsay Lohan's final teen comedy. If so, the timing couldn't be better.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
05/12/06
Peter Howell
Peter Howell
Toronto Star
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Lohan shows signs that she might really be an actress. Maybe a good one. But to say the least, Just My Luck is not a flattering showcase.

Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
05/12/06
Mick LaSalle
Mick LaSalle
San Francisco Chronicle
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I liked the film's idea that luck is like love -- something that diminishes when you hoard it and multiplies when you share it.

Full Review Source: Philadelphia Inquirer | comment Comment
05/12/06
Carrie Rickey
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Lindsay Lohan may be all grown up in the tabloids, but her latest movie doesn't reflect any newfound maturity.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
05/12/06
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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An appallingly unfunny and unromantic romantic comedy starring tabloid bait Lindsay Lohan.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
05/12/06
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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The new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy, Just My Luck, needs more than just luck to overcome an achingly stupid script. It needs a miracle.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
05/12/06
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
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Just my luck that the movie is directed by Donald Petrie, who made the a similar Manhattan-set How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, though this time it's vaguely crossed with the magic plot of 13 Going on 30.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
05/12/06
Liam Lacey
Liam Lacey
Globe and Mail
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In the end, Just My Luck is light, fluffy and as quickly forgettable as a tossed-aside horoscope.

Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
05/12/06
Adam Graham
Adam Graham
Detroit News
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The screenplay for Just My Luck is credited to five writers, all of whom relied on their DVD collections for inspiration.

Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press | comment Comment
05/12/06
Terry Lawson
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
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The movie tries to adopt a breezy attitude toward life in New York. But you have to be in a bubble-gum frame of mind to buy into anything that's being sold here.

Full Review Source: Denver Rocky Mountain News | comment Comment
05/12/06
Robert Denerstein
Robert Denerstein
Denver Rocky Mountain News
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Just My Luck is a safe teen movie that teens will actually like, and there are far worse things than that.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
05/12/06
Michael Booth
Michael Booth
Denver Post
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Why [Lindsay Lohan] agreed to front a movie tailor-made for Hilary Duff or the Olsens is a mystery.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
05/12/06
Wesley Morris
Wesley Morris
Boston Globe
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I can't think of a movie that matters less than Just My Luck. It's just negligible.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/11/06
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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Just My Luck is a fortune cookie of a movie, without the fortune: The outside looks sweet and tasty, the inside is hollow and dry.

Full Review Source: Arizona Republic | comment Comment
05/11/06
Kathy Cano Murillo
Kathy Cano Murillo
Arizona Republic
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The assumption must be that those who see this PG-13 movie have been raised on a diet of bathroom-humor comedies and are not quite ready to let that go.

Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
05/11/06
Claudia Puig
Claudia Puig
USA Today
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Just My Luck is a bit of lukewarm cappuccino froth confected to float Lindsay Lohan to the next stage of her career.

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05/11/06
A.O. Scott
A.O. Scott
New York Times
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