It's the easiest kind of comedy, comedy of derision. No joke about the rubes is left alone. And no obvious plot twist is, either.
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Lucky Numbers (1999)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:21
Rotten:72
Average Rating:4/10
Consensus: Nora Ephron's attempt at dark comedy is an uneven product, both in terms of the direction and the acting. The characters are unlikable to the point where you don't care what happens to them, and Ephron condescends to the material.
Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $9,534,013
Synopsis: Russ Richards (John Travolta) seems to have it all. A popular local television weatherman from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he has a reserved parking space and table at his favorite restaurant, a... [More]
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Reviews for Lucky Numbers
Top CriticThere are dark comedies. There are screwball comedies. But there aren't many dark screwball comedies. And if Nora Ephron's Lucky Numbers is any indication, there's a good reason for that.
01/01/00
would make a fine watch on TV if there were nothing else to do.
01/01/00
The thing just dies on celluloid, as line after line and scene after scene falls flat.
01/01/00
Es una verdadera pena que una directora capaz como Ephron se haya prestado para esta cinta que ni llega a ser comedia ni thriller en su totalidad
03/06/01
Instead of becoming involved in the convoluted plot, we stand on the outside looking in, not laughing enough to make it all worthwhile.
01/01/00
Top CriticLeave it to director Nora Ephron to declaw a black comedy like Lucky Numbers, turning it into something docile and almost sweet.
01/01/00
Ephron and Resnick seem to have lost their way home, allowing the story to unfold rather aimlessly after a reasonably sound set-up.
01/01/00
Each idea is good for maybe one and a half funny moments, tops. Add them up, and you may have a halfway-decent sitcom episode but not a movie.
01/01/00
Looks like your basic formulaic undertaking, but it's got a lovely subversive edge to it.
01/01/00
Never finds the comic tone it's after.
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Top CriticJust too tame.
01/01/00
The characters are generally too repulsive even for our toleration, much less our affection, and the comedy is too mild to transcend that lack of involvement.
01/01/00
Top CriticA solid, entertaining flick that benefits from a superb cast that transcends the formula of the script by Adam Resnick.
01/01/00
Travolta and Kudrow make a winning combination, and the result is mindless, instantly forgettable comic fluff that will engage you, given half a chance.
01/01/00
Top CriticWith this dud of a dark comedy, it's clear that director Nora Ephron's unluckiest number is that of John Travolta.
10/14/07
Tells too much story at not enough energy. It should have been cut back and cranked up.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe crafty actors hit their marks (Kudrow especially), but those marks sink in the quicksand of an insipid script directed with barely any feeling for comical momentum or stylized charm.
01/01/00
The movie is as lifeless and unfunny as a corpse on a slab.
01/01/00
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